The story of our common ancestor, Lucy

The scientists traced back our female ancentry using mitrochondria DNA, since we inherited them from our mothers and grandmothers and great-great-great-great-granmothers. The earliest female traced back was a female kingkong called Lucy. From her skeleton, it was believed that she walked on two legs but then sometimes walked on 4 legs in order to run faster. Using carbon dating it was estimated she was 3 million years old. Her life story continues in the next paragraph.

Lucy was born in Eygpt about 3 million years ago in a tribe of 5 kingkongs. (Eygpt was a grassland at that time) She loves to eat dates, bananas, grapes, apples, leaves and small insects (ants, mosquitoes, fruitflies). She wasn't a particularly active or agile kingkong, spending most of her time on trees and her haystack house. However gender role was already known at that time and Lucy was expected to build, maintain her tree house and take care of her children. The male kingkongs are expected to collect gather food from other trees. Her tribe was mainly vegetarian, they don't eat meat with the exception of insects. Lucy have a rather happy and contented childhood.

When Lucy turned 10, she found a boyfriend Zeexa, mate and "married" with him. Like her Zeexa was a vegetarian also. Although Lucy still maintains close ties to her family after marriage, she had moved to a new tree house with her husband. Several years had passed and her parent tribe had died off due to tuberculosis. She was smart enough to move away from them in fear of getting this dreaded disease. Unfortunately her husband also died soon with the same disease and she was left with 4 children. She was very sad about her husband's death, but decided to move on and find a new husband.

She had travelled several kilometres to another place full of kingkongs. She brought her children found a new tribe of kingkongs which is the kongkong tribe. The kongkong tribe sees her as a invader and use branches to poke her. She explained that she lost her husband and was very lonely. The leader kingking decided to accept her into their tribe.

However, this tribe has very different characteristics from her. They are very strong and agile as compared to her. They are aggressive, whereas she is gentle. They are omnivorious and are meat loving. They lived in caves whereas she used to live in trees. It was very different from all the other kingkongs she know and she say "Oh my God!". When the kongkongs are having their meaty meals of wolves, fishes, antelopes, zebras etc, Lucy was sitting aside eating fruits the male kingkongs collected. However her children are rather adaptive and follow the kongkongs to eat meat. Kingking decided to invite Lucy over to eat their meals with them. He cut off a portion of meat for her. She looked at the meat, smell and licked it, and then say "yuck!" and went back to eat fruits. Since Lucy was one of the few females in the tribe, the tribe decided to acoomodate her strange behavior and diet.

Several years have passed she gave birth to 3 more baby kingkongs. The original children of her former husband also grown up to become adults. However, the weather turned for the worse and many trees and animals died from the drought. The kongkongs decided to shift to explore for new lands and find new food sources. Hihi saw across the Nile river there were a lot of trees but were rather far away. He alerted the tribe to move to that land. So the tribe follow Hihi across the river one by one, Lucy's children also crossed the river. Her children, Zee Zee and Hee Ha also asked her to crossed the river, but she was reluctant as she was pregnant and rather heavy. After much thought, she can't bear to leave here children alone so followed them. However, as she was too clumsy and heavy because she was pregnant, she was washed by the currents of the river and drowned.