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LAETOLI HUMAN The fa mous pa le o an thro pol o gist
FOOTPRINTS, THE Tim White, who worked with Mary
Leakey, said this on the sub ject:
In 1978, Mary Leakey dis cov ered
a num ber of foot prints in a lay er of Make no mis take about it . . . They are
like mod ern hu man foot prints. If one
vol can ic ash in Laetoli in Kenya.
were left in the sand of a California
These prints were em ployed as an
beach to day, and a four-year-old were
im por tant part of the ev o lu tion ist
asked what it was, he would in stant ly
prop a gan da re gard ing the well-
say that some body had walk ed there.
known fos sil "Lucy" (See The Lucy
He wouldn't be able to tell it from a
Deceit,). Evolutionists por trayed the
hun dred oth er prints on the beach, nor
Laetoli foot prints as con crete proof 13
would you.
that Lucy—which
After ex am in ing
they re gard ed as the
the prints, Louis
com mon an ces tor of
Robins from
man and ape—walk -
University of
ed on two legs. It was
California said:
an nounced that the
The arch is raised—the
prints were the same
small er in di vid u al had a
age as Lucy, ap prox i -
high er arch than I do . . .
mate ly 3.6 mil lions
The toes grip the ground
years, and that they
like hu man toes. You do
rep re sent ed ev i dence
not see this in oth er an i -
of bi ped a lism. mal forms. 14
The footprints
In short, it was
were in deed of the A Laetoli foot print
im pos si ble for these
same age as Lucy,
3.6-mil lion-year-old
they had clear ly been left by a crea -
prints to be long to Lucy. Lucy had
ture that walk ed up right. Yet there
curved hands and feet and used her
was no ev i dence to show that the
fore arms when walk ing. She could
prints be longed to Australopithecus
not have left be hind such prints,
afa ren sis, a sup posed in ter me di ate-
which can on ly be long to a hu man
form clas si fi ca tion, like Lucy. They
be ing. The on ly rea son why they
had ev i dent ly been left by a true hu -
were thought to have been left by
man be ing.
Australopithecus afa ren sis was the vol -
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