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AUSTRALOPITHECUS-CHIMPANZEE RESEMBLANCE

The great similarity between Australopithecus (left) and Chimpanzee (right)
skulls clearly indicate that Australopithecus, the alleged ancestor of man, is in
reality only an ape species.

The movements of apes and men are completely different. Human beings are the only
living creatures that move freely about on two feet. Some other animals do have a limit-
ed ability to move in this way, but those that do have bent skeletons.
According to evolutionists, these living beings called Australopithecus had the abili-
ty to walk in a bent rather than an upright posture like human beings. Even this limited
bipedal stride was sufficient to encourage evolutionists to project onto these creatures
that they were the ancestors of man.
However, the first evidence refuting the allegations of evolutionists that
Australopithecus were bipedal came from evolutionists themselves. Detailed studies
made on Australopithecus fossils forced even evolutionists to admit that these looked
"too" ape-like. Having conducted detailed anatomical research on Australopithecus fos-
sils in the mid-1970s, Charles E. Oxnard likened the skeletal structure of Australopithecus
to that of modern orang-utans:
An important part of today's conventional wisdom about human evolution is based
on studies of teeth, jaws and skull fragments of australopithecine fossils. These all
indicate that the close relation of the australopithecine to the human lineage may not
be true. All these fossils are different from gorillas, chimpanzees and men. Studied as
a group, the australopithecine seems more like the orang-utan. 50
What really embarrassed evolutionists was the discovery that Austra-lopithecus
could not have walked on two feet and with a bent posture. It would have been physi-
cally 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 paleoanthro-
pologist Robin Crompton also demonstrated that such a "compound" stride was impos-

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