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To: BroJoeK

(CMI article caption for the image.) The Homo erectus skeleton of KNM-WT 15000 (left) is compared to the australopithecus afarensis skeleton of Lucy (right). There is a huge morphological gap between the essentially modern human postcranial skeleton of erectus and that of the australopithecine postcranial skeleton, as represented by Lucy. For example, the conical-shaped rib cage of Lucy suggests she was thick-waisted with a pot-bellied abdomen, like chimpanzees. Also, there is wide flaring of the ilia of Lucy’s pelvis, compared to the narrower ilia of humans. For further discussion, see Mehlert.113 (Image from Walker and Shipman.114)

http://creation.com/fossil-evidence-for-alleged-apemen-part-2-non-homo-hominids

My comment to your comment: That gallery of skulls might just be a combination of ape heads and human heads.

50 posted on 04/13/2016 11:02:50 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank
fishtank: "My comment to your comment: That gallery of skulls might just be a combination of ape heads and human heads."

But it's not, of course, so why deny it?
Over 150+ years, fossil evidence produced hundreds of individuals' remains in dozens of different pre-human and early-human species-populations.
Whenever those are dated and lined up in sequence, they result in a gallery such as you see in post #48 above.

So why people would continue refusing to acknowledge "transitional forms" is inexplicable logically.

fishtank: "There is a huge morphological gap between the essentially modern human postcranial skeleton of erectus and that of the australopithecine postcranial skeleton, as represented by Lucy."

But Lucy herself is not included in this particular gallery.
If she were, you'd find her about half-way (= transitional) between the skull marked "A" and the next one marked "B".
She is classified as "Australopithecus afarensis", an ape-like hominid living between 3.9 and 2.5 million years ago.

The next in time were Homo Habilis, from 2.8 to 1.5 million years ago, represented in this particular gallery as skulls D, E, and F.
Then comes erectus, represented here by skulls G & H, and thought to have lived from 1.9 million years ago to relatively recent times, 70,000 years ago.

So consider what-all you are denying when you deny "transitional fossils".

53 posted on 04/13/2016 11:46:21 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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