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Zuckerman and his team read: The pro tru sions over the eye -
For my own part, the an a tom i cal ba sis brows, the most im por tant fea ture
for the claim that the Australopithecines that led to Australopithecus af ri ca nus
walk ed and ran up right like man is so be ing de scribed as a hom i nid, can be
much more flim sy than the ev i dence seen in young go ril las to day. From
which points to the con clu sion that their all this, it ap pears that the skull as -
gait was some var i ant of what one sees cribed to Australopithecus af ri ca nus
in sub hu man Primates, that it re mains
by ev o lu tion ists did not be long to an
un ac cept a ble. 238
an ces tor of man but in all prob a bil i -
These judg ments, pub lished by ty, to a young ape.
Zuckerman in the mid-1950s, were
con firmed by sub se quent re search -
ers. Dean Falk, a spe cial ist in neu ro - TAXONOMY
a nat o my, de clared that the Taung
Biologists di vide liv ing things in -
skull be longed to a young mon key.
to spe cif ic class es. This clas si fi ca tion,
"In his 1975 ar ti cle, Dart had claimed
known as tax on o my, dates back to
that the brain of Taung was hu man -
Carolus Linnaeus in the 18th cen tu -
like. As it turned out, he was wrong
ry. The clas si fi ca tion sys tem that
about that. . . . Taung's hu man like
Linnaeus con struct ed has been ex -
fea tures were over em pha sized,"
pand ed and re vised, but is still in
claimed Falk, who went on to say:
use to day.
Like hu mans, [apes and mon keys] go This sys tem of clas si fi ca tion con -
through sta ges as they grow up. In his tains hi er arch i cal cat e go ries. Living
anal y sis of Taung, Dart did not ful ly
things are first di vid ed in to king -
ap pre ci ate that in fant apes have not
doms, such as the an i mal and plant
had time to de vel op fea tures of the
king doms. Kingdoms are then sub -
skull, such as thick ened eye brow ridges
di vid ed in to phy la, which are then
or at tach ment ar e as for heavy neck
fur ther sub di vid ed. Classification
mus cles, that set adult apes apart from
takes the fol low ing form, in de -
hu man. Apparently he did not care ful -
scend ing or der:
ly con sid er the pos si bil i ty that Taung's
round ed fore head or the in ferred po si - king dom
tion of the spi nal cord might be due to phy lum (plu ral phy la)
the im ma tur i ty of the ape like spec i men class
rath er than to its re sem blance to hu - or der
mans. 239 fam i ly

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