[LiteKeeper]

New Evidence: Lucy Was A Knuckle-Walker

Lucy is not the missing link

[Physicist]

If Lucy was a knuckle-walker, she's an even better missing link than she would be otherwise. But alas, her legs are too long for her to walk on all fours and not look ridiculous.

[Junior]

I'm sorry, but Answers in Genesis is not a scientific site. Indeed, it doesn't "do" science, but merely peruses scientific journals searching for something it can latch onto that might support its views.

[cyborg]

I like Answers in Genesis :)

[capitan_refugio]

I find it interesting that the author of your link "Lucy was a knuckle-walker" is a botanist rather than a paleontologist or anthropologist.

All individuals of the genera Homo and Australopitecus are considered "hominids." A common trait is bipedality, and tooth morphology is an important diagnostic feature. There are several other recently published generic names, including "Kenyanthropus" (2001), "Ardipithicus" (1994), "Orrorin" (2001), and "Sahelanthropus" (2002). Most of these names are proposed from fragmentary, and in some cases, solitary, specimens. (For instance, I suspect "Kenyanthropus" will be folded into Australopithecus as more fossils are found.)

"Lucy" was, indeed, a hominid. She was not, however, a human.