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To: SunkenCiv
Interested in hominid feet?? You might want to take a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_anatomy

That's one of Wiki's pages dealing with Neanderthal anatomy. It shows a mockup of a complete Neanderthal skeleton with normal looking feet which are probably just concocted from minimal real evidence as usual, and then an image of a Neanderthal footprint which is presumably real and a caption describing it as from the Natural History Museum in Prague:

THAT is pretty obviously an ape's footprint. You could view that image as an artifact of a human-like Neanderthal having once had a pet gorilla; I view it as an artifact of people looking at something the wrong way.

19 posted on 03/31/2012 6:06:28 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: varmintman

No, that’s pretty obviously *not* an ape footprint. Apes are generally arborial, having longer toes for gripping, and a thumblike opposable big toe, leaving a footprint more like a handprint. That isn’t the case with humans like the Neanderthals.


21 posted on 03/31/2012 8:19:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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