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climbers. In other words, the anatomical
feature that evolutionists portray as evi-
dence of bipedalism is possessed by ar-
boreal monkeys, which no-one suggests
were the ancestors of man.

In addition, Lucy's wrist joints
show that this creature was a
quadrupedal knuckle-walker, which is a
distinguishing feature of modern apes.
Brian G. Richmond and David S. Strait
of George Washington University de-
scribed four skeletal features of distal
radius of knuckle-walking apes, chim-
panzees, and gorillas. The two re-

searchers investigated Lucy and other
fossils claimed to be hominid, and
stated that Lucy possessed the same
skeletal structure as knuckle-walking
apes. 9
As we have seen, detailed studies
of Australopithecus show that these crea-

tures did not stand upright and walk on
The latest research has shown that
Lucy possessed the skeletal fea- two legs, but on the contrary possessed
tures of knuckle-walking apes.
a knee structure and gait seen in pre-
sent-day chimpanzees and gorillas.
It needs to be made clear that even if Australopithecus were
bipedal, this would still be insufficient to prove it was an ancestor of
man. Bernard Wood says that bipedalism should not be regarded as a
feature distinguishing man from apes, and cites the following exam-
ple, "birds have wings, but not all creatures with wings are birds." 10

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