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A DEFINITIVE REPLY
TO EVOLUTIONIST
PROPAGANDA
mandibular structure, their long arms, and their short legs—consti-
tute evidence that these creatures were no different from today's
apes.
NGC's claim that Australopithecus walked upright is a view that
has been held by paleoanthropologists like Richard Leakey and
Donald C. Johanson for decades. Yet many scientists who have car-
ried out a great deal of research on the skeletal structures of
Australopithecus have proved the invalidity of that argument.
Extensive research done on various Australopithecus specimens by
two world-renowned anatomists from England and the USA, Lord
Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, showed that these crea-
tures did not walk upright in the human manner, and had exactly
the same movements as modern apes. Having studied the bones of
these fossils for a period of 15 years thanks to grants from the
British government, Lord Zuckerman and his team of five special-
ists reached the conclusion that Australopithecus was only an ordi-
nary species of ape, and was definitely not bipedal—this even
1
though Zuckerman is an evolutionist himself. Correspondingly,
Charles E. Oxnard, who is another evolutionary anatomist famous
for his research on the subject, also likened the skeletal structure of
Australopithecus to that of modern orangutans. 2
Probably the most important study demonstrating that
Australopithecus could not have been bipedal came in 1994 from the
research anatomist Fred Spoor and his team at the University of
Liverpool, England. This group conducted studies in the inner
ear of fossilized Australopithecus specimens. In the
inner ears of human beings and other complex
living beings, there is an organ named the
"cochlea" that determines the position of
the body in relation to the ground. The
function of this organ, which main-
tains balance in human beings, is
Right: Donald Johanson
Left: Richard Leakey
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