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es of ape and that certainly did not walk relation to human beings whatsoever.
upright. 48
Studies done by another noted evolu-
Autotrophy Nonsense,
tionist anatomist, Charles E. Oxnard,
the
showed that the skeleton of Australopit-
hecus resembles that of a modern oran- Since all living organisms need food
gutan. 49 to survive, then the first living thing
The fact that Australopithecus can- must have had to make its own food. Ac-
not be considered an ancestor of man is cording to this view, the first living thing
accepted even by evolutionist sources. capable of producing its own nourish-
The well-known French magazine Sci- ment was an autotrophic one, and other
ence et Vie made this the cover story of living things then emerged from this or-
its May 1999 issue. The story dealt with ganism.
Lucy, the best-known fossil specimen of However, it is impossible for autot-
A. afarensis, under the title "Adieu Lucy rophs to emerge as in the hostile and
(Goodbye, Lucy)” and detailed the need simple conditions in early days of this
to remove Australopithecus from the hu- Earth. Autotrophs would have to under-
man family tree. The article was based go millions of years of changes in order
on the discovery of a new Australopithe- to acquire their first complex structure.
cus, code number St W573: The autotrophic view maintains that
A new theory states that the genus Austra- the first living thing formed as a comp-
lopithecus is not the root of the human ra- lex organism in a simple environment.
ce. . . . The results arrived at by the only Yet rather than account for the orga-
woman authorized to examine St W573 nism’s appearance, it actually explains
are different from the normal theories re-
how this first living thing fed. Since the
garding mankind's ancestors: this des-
theory fails to account for how the first
troys the hominid family tree. Large pri-
autotroph came into being, it received
mates, considered the ancestors of man,
little support. 51
have been removed from the equation of
this family tree. . . . Australopithecus and
Avian lungs
Homo (human) species do not appear on
the same branch. Man's direct ancestors (See Origin of Avian lungs, the)
are still waiting to be discovered. 50
Australopithecus was nothing more
than an extinct species of ape, with no

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)