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However, the first evidence refuting the allegations of evolutionists
that Australopithecus were bipedal came from evolutionists themselves.
Detailed studies made on Australopithecus fossils forced even evolu-
tionists to admit that these looked "too" ape-like. Having conducted de-
tailed anatomical research on Australopithecus fossils in the mid-1970s,
Charles E. Oxnard likened the skeletal structure of Australopithecus to
that of modern orang-utans:
An important part of today's conventional wisdom about human evolu-
tion is based on studies of teeth, jaws and skull fragments of australop-
ithecine fossils. These all indicate that the close relation of the australop-
ithecine to the human lineage may not be true. All these fossils are dif-
ferent from gorillas, chimpanzees and men. Studied as a group, the aus-
tralopithecine seems more like the orang-utan. 97

What really embarrassed evolutionists was the discovery that
Australopithecus could not have walked on two feet and with a bent
posture. It would have been physically very ineffective for
Australopithecus, allegedly bipedal but with a bent stride, to move about
in such a way because of the enormous energy demands it would have
entailed. By means of computer simulations conducted in 1996, the
English paleoanthropologist Robin Crompton also demonstrated that
such a "compound" stride was impossible. Crompton reached the fol-
lowing conclusion: a living being can walk either upright or on all fours.
A type of in-between stride cannot be sustained for long periods be-
cause of the extreme energy consumption. This means that
Australopithecus could not have been both bipedal and have a bent
walking posture.
Probably the most important study demonstrating that
Australopithecus could not have been bipedal came in 1994 from the re-
search anatomist Fred Spoor and his team in the Department of Human
Anatomy and Cellular Biology at the University of Liverpool, England.
This group conducted studies on the bipedalism of fossilised living be-
ings. Their research investigated the involuntary balance mechanism
found in the cochlea of the ear, and the findings showed conclusively
that Australopithecus could not have been bipedal. This precluded any
claims that Australopithecus was human-like.

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