Was Lucy An Ape-man?
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1976 - *Johnson said Lucy has massive V-shaped jaws in contrast to man. (National Geographic Magazine, 150: 790-810).
1977 - Tiny skull, ape type head, chimp size braincase of 450cc. was suprisingly short legged (*Time, Novenber 7, 1979, pp. 68-69).
1979 - *Johanson and *White placed Lucy under ape/man classification (Australopithecus afarensis).
1979 - *Owen Lovejoy an anatomist, (Leakey's associate) at a lecture in the United States, states Lucy's knee joints revealed her to be as ape.1981 - *Johnson said, embarrassingly un-Homo like (Science 81, 2(2): 53-55).
1982 - *Dr. Yves Coppens on BBC-TV, Lucy's skull was like that of an ape.
1982 - thumb apelike, toes long and curved for tree climbing and she probably nested in the trees and lived like others monkeys *Susman and *Stern of New York University, (Bible Science Newsletter, 1982, p. 4)
1983 - *Jeremy Cherfas, Ankle bone (talus) tilts back like a gorilla (humans tilt forward for walking upright). Unmistakable differences between Lucy and humans (*J. Cherfas, New Science, (97: 172 [1982].
1984 - To Complicate matters further, some researchers believe that afarensis sample [Lucy] is really a mixture of two separate species. The most convincing evidence fot this is based on characterists of the knee and elbow joints. *Peter Andrews, The Desent of Man, in New Svience, 102:24 (1984).
1990 - Although the Lucy fossils were initally date at three million years, *Johnson had announced them as 3.5 million because he said the species was 'the same' as a skull found by *Mary Leaky at Laetoli, Tanzania. By proposing *Mary Leakey's find as the 'type specimen' for Australopithecus afarensis, he was identifing Lucy with another fossil 1,000 miles [1609 km] from the Afar [in northern Ethopia] and half a million years older! *Mary thought the two not at all the same and refused to have any part of linking her specimen with [*Johnson's] afarensis.. She announced that she strongly resented Johnson's 'approriating' her find, her reputation and the older date to lend authority to Lucy. Thus began the bitter, persistent feud between Johnson and the Leakeys. *R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution (1990), p. 285.
Johnson himself originally described the fossils as Homo, a species of man, but soon after changed his mind based on the assessment of his colleague, *Tim White. They now describe the bones as too apelike in the jaws, teeth and skull to be considered Homo, yet also sufficiently distinct from other, later australopithecines to warrent their own species. *Ibid.
The evidence.. Makes its overwhelmingly likely that Lucy was no more than a variety of pigmy chimpanzee, and walked the same way (awkwardly upright on occasions, but mostly quadrupedal). The 'evidence' for alleged transformation from ape to man is extremely unconvincing. A.W. Mehlert, news note, Creation Research Society Quarterly, December 1985, p. 145.
Gary Parker. Northwest Creation Network
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