sounded so the music coming out of paleontologists from the small radio when, in 1974, found in Ethiopia, the skeleton of a female specimen of Australopithecus afarensis later renamed Lucy. And 'now the news of the discovery site of the Ethiopian town of Hadar is a fragment of the metatarsal bone dating back 3.2 million years ago well. The news caused a sensation because the bone fragment in question would present an arched shape, typical of a foot can provide ambulation. This finding then move over 1 million years dating back to the walk upright, so far attributed only to ' Homo erectus lived about 2 million years ago. That our body was the result of ancient evolution is well known, but it is always fascinating to think that between us and Lucy the similarities are very strong, considering that there are still people in which the curvature arch support is not perfect (the so-called " flat foot ") and who thus have difficulty walking and posture, just as our hominid ancestors.
not hide that, after reading the article in the discovery of the fragment of bone of the foot Lucy, I looked at my feet with new interest and awareness of being provided with a tool to the gait of the most complex and effective in nature, and I wondered if we really Homo sapiens sapiens we are exploiting its full potential, or if our so-called wisdom has led us in some way to "forget" our kind of bipedal the light of a growing effort it takes to invent systems that avoid the use of the foot.
If you think about it every day feet to press pedals we use more or use devices, which in some way, impede the full use of our legs. On the other hand, you do not feel that the advice of doctors who recommend walking 10,000 steps every day for at least a real exaggeration if you think that pedometer in hand, I walked 3000 steps a day I done aerobics for 1 hour and a half, a walk of two hours and I threw in the trash two blocks away from my home! After all, a body that is not used, is an organ that is destianto disappearing over the millennia of evolution (that we no longer have to queue because we do not move more from tree to tree) and if we think that we move from the waist down very little, which will be our evolutionary destiny? Once in the film depicting the aliens with huge heads and small bodies because they were thought to have a brain evolved tremendously, but we humans can not even say that! Maybe they were right in that the designers of the Pixar animated film Wall-E we have depicted as floating above salsiccioni large ships equipped with every comfort, including high-calorie bibitone.
talks about power: what to eat Lucy? Fruits, roots, insects and lizards. And it bugs the protagonists of the last meeting World sull'insostenibilità FAO warns that the future of farming and meat consumption promotes the consumption of insects that could "help reduce world hunger, exploitation of agricultural land and production of greenhouse gases resulting from the herd of cattle. " Usually consume crickets and sea snails, land snails and crustaceans, but turn up their noses at the sight of a plate of fried crickets and spiders, or worse, ants and maggots in corpses.
In essence, if we are to evolve and become extinct, the answer is in the past. After all, if there is Lucy failed to reproduce whose features certainly not stood for grace and femininity, we modern women should not have trouble seeing our side we have the discovery of makeup, clothes and shoes with heels. Maybe, next time we go out with a guy, we could take him to eat fried crickets, but parking the car at least a half hour walk from the restaurant!
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