{"id":267008,"date":"2024-12-18T20:14:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/ancient-hominin-lucy-was-a-lousy-runner-simulations-show\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:00","slug":"ancient-hominin-lucy-was-a-lousy-runner-simulations-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/ancient-hominin-lucy-was-a-lousy-runner-simulations-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient hominin Lucy was a lousy runner, simulations show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n    <iframe title=\"How fast could this ancient human ancestor run?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJYNn_8AA8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Lucy, the fossil hominin who lived around 3.2 million years ago, would have been no match for modern humans in a running race.<\/p>\n<p>Even an average member of our species would have left her for dead in a 100-metre sprint, and the current world record holder for this distance, Usain Bolt, would have beaten Lucy by somewhere between 50 and 80 metres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/people\/karl-bates\">Karl Bates<\/a> at the University of Liverpool in the UK and his colleagues have, for the first time, attempted to determine how fast Lucy\u2019s species, \u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2461156-ancient-hominin-lucy-was-a-lousy-runner-simulations-show\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Lucy, the fossil hominin who lived around 3.2 million years ago, would have been no match for modern humans in a running race. Even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}