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Do you like your old bones better with a cocktail or two? Lucy, the name given to the 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis whose skeleton was unearthed in 1974, has been doing time at the Pacific Science Center since October. She’ll be parting company with our fair city in early March and hasn’t been getting quite as many visitors as she (or her curators) would have liked given the $2.25 million dollar fee paid to get her into town [eclecticism].

Tonight, then, is as good an opportunity as any to take a look at her famous bones. In addition to February being the month that marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, it’s also the month in which “Science with a Twist” [pacsci] happy hour gets you an evening tour of the Lucy exhibit. Tickets are $20 at the door; drinking starts at 6, tour starts at 8, twisting starts at your discretion.