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Australopithecus could not have walked on two feet and with a bent pos-

ture. It would have been physically very ineffective for Australopithecus,
allegedly bipedal but with a bent stride, to move about in such a way
because of the enormous energy demands it would have entailed. By
means of computer simulations conducted in 1996, the English paleoan-
thropologist Robin Crompton also demonstrated that such a "compound"
stride was impossible. Crompton reached the following conclusion: a liv-
ing being can walk either upright or on all fours. A type of in-between
stride cannot be sustained for long periods because of the extreme energy
consumption. This means that Australopithecus could not have been both
bipedal and have a bent walking posture.
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 in the Department of Human Anatomy and
Cellular Biology at the University of Liverpool, England. This group con-
ducted studies on the bipedalism of fossilised living beings. Their research
investigated the involuntary balance mechanism found in the cochlea of
the ear, and the findings showed conclusively that Australopithecus could
not have been bipedal. This precluded any claims that Australopithecus
was human-like.

The Homo Series: Real Human Beings

The next step in the imaginary human evolution is "Homo", that is, the
human series. These living beings are humans who are no different from
modern men, yet who have some racial differences. Seeking to exaggerate
these differences, evolutionists represent these people not as a "race" of
modern man but as a different "species". However, as we will soon see,
the people in the Homo series are nothing but ordinary human racial
types.
According to the fanciful scheme of evolutionists, the internal imaginary
evolution of the Homo species is as follows: First Homo erectus, then
Homo sapiens archaic and Neanderthal Man, later Cro-Magnon Man and
finally modern man.

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