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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
Another evolutionist assumption is that in some ape species brachiation (loco-
motion by hanging from branches with their arms and reaching from hold to hold)
has preadapted these animals to bipedal walking. However, research has shown
that the evolution of bipedalism never occurred, nor is it possible for it to have
done so. Robin Crompton, senior lecturer in anatomy at Liverpool University,
showed that a "compound" stride between quadrupedalism and bipedalism is not
possible, because it would involve excessive energy consumption.
3. In 1994, Fred Spoor of Liverpool University and his team car-
ried out a wide-ranging study to arrive at a definitive conclusion re-
garding the Australopithecus skeleton. The study was based upon an
organ known as the "cochlea," which determines the position of the
skeleton relative to the ground. Spoor's conclusion was that
Australopithecus' mode of walking did not resemble that of man. 3
4. In 2000, a study by the scientists B.G. Richmond and D.S. Strait
published in the journal Nature, looked at Australopithecus' forearms.
Comparative anatomical analyses showed that the species had just the
same forearm anatomy as modern apes that walk on all four legs. 4
These researches reveal that Australopithecus, which evolution-
ists put forward as an intermediate species, is actually an extinct
species of ape.
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