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"FAREWELL LUCY!"
                                                           Scientific findings countered the
                                                     evolutionist propositions on "Lucy", the
                                                              most famous specimen of the
                                                    Australopithecus species. The well-known
                                                        French science journal, Science et Vie,
                                                       admitted this fact in its February 1999
                                                     issue with the headline "Farewell Lucy"
                                                        (Adieu Lucy) and the statement that
                                                     Australopithecus could not be considered
                                                                     the ancestor of man.


                              evolutionist himself – that Australopithecines were only an ordinary ape species
                              and were definitely not bipedal.  48  Correspondingly, Oxnard, who is also an
                               evolutionist, also likened the skeletal structure of Australopithecus to that of
                               modern orang-utans.  49
                               The detailed analyses conducted by the American anthropologist Holly Smith in
                               1994 on the teeth of Australopithecus indicated that Australopithecus was an ape
                               species. 50
                               Within the same year, Fred Spoor, Bernard Wood and Frans Zonneveld, all
                               specialists on anatomy, reached the same conclusion through a totally different
                              method. This method was based on the comparative analysis of the semi-circular
                             canals in the inner ear of humans and apes which provided for sustaining balance.
                            The inner ear canals of all Australopithecus specimens analysed by Spoor, Wood and
                            Zonneveld were the same as those of modern apes.      51  This finding once more
                           showed that the Australopithecus species is a species similar to modern apes.





                                                                        AUSTRALOPITHECUS AND CHIMPANZEE
                                                                        The skull of the Australopithecus aferensis and that of
                                                                        the modern chimpanzee are very similar to each
                                                                        other. This similarity verifies that creatures falling
                                                                        into the Australopithecus classification are an ape
                                                                        species that have nothing to do with humans.










            IMAGINARY                    Skull coded as A.L.
            DRAWINGS                    444-2 that belongs to
            Such evolutionary            the Australopithecus
            drawings depicting              afarensis species
            Australopithecus
            walking have been
            disproved by the
            latest scientific
                                               Chimpanzee skull
            discoveries.

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