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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

The evolutionist claim on this subject,
however, is that despite having a totally
simian anatomy, Australopithecus walked up-
right, like human beings and unlike apes.
This "walking upright" claim is a view

that has been maintained by evolutionist pale-
oanthropologists like Richard Leakey and
Donald Johanson for many years. However,
many scientists who have examined the
Richard Leakey
Australopithecus skeletal structure have refuted
this claim. Two world-famous British and American anatomists, Lord
Solly Zuckerman and Professor Charles Oxnard, carried out wide-
ranging examinations of Australopithecus specimens and showed that
these creatures were not bipedal but moved in the same manner as

modern apes. Despite being an evolu-
tionist himself, Lord Zuckerman,
who spent 15 years studying vari-
ous Australopithecus specimens
with a team of five experts
backed by the British government,
arrived at the conclusion that

Australopithecus was an ordinary
species of ape and very definitely
did not walk upright. 7
Charles E. Oxnard, another evolutionist
well-known for his research in this area, also
likened the skeletal structure of
Australopithecus to that of present-day
orangutans. 8
The point regarding bipedalism

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