Debunking Evolution Clip: Lucy
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This short feature make the case that the Lucy fossil is nothing more that an ape.
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- 00:09
- Now, Donald Johansson, 1973, discovered just the shin and the leg bone.
- 00:16
- Now the way they line up makes scientists think that she could walk upright. There's a picture of her.
- 00:25
- Wow. There's a lot of her missing. Hey, at least it's more than a tooth. It's true.
- 00:31
- You want to see the fragments of the skull that they found? Sure. All right. Wait for it.
- 00:38
- Booyah. Wow. That's what they found.
- 00:45
- Not that much. Man, there's a lot of skulls in here. Was your grandpa a witch doctor?
- 00:52
- No, he was a yard sailor. Now, looky what we have here. We have here a modern bonobo monkey skull, and we have
- 01:00
- Lucy. So the brown pieces are the actual fragments of Lucy's skull that they found.
- 01:07
- Well, they look so alike. Her brain is only a third the size of a modern human's, about the average chimp brain size, and she only stood about three and a half feet tall.
- 01:17
- Take a look at the way that Lucy has been portrayed in like the media, like books and films, online.
- 01:27
- Wow. Everywhere. They really went out of their way to make her look human -like.
- 01:33
- Take a look in our other biology book. Oh, wow. Hey, look at the whites of those eyes.
- 01:40
- You know, I've been to a lot of different zoos, and I've seen a lot of different apes, and each of them have completely brown eyes, and not the eye whites that us humans have.
- 01:50
- Man, it even looks like she's thinking about something. Yeah, bananas.
- 01:56
- I don't think they found any eyeball fossils, but if you wanted to make an ape man look more human, changing the colors of the eye whites in pictures is a good way to do it.
- 02:05
- That's true. Here's a picture of what she probably looked like. Man, what a difference.
- 02:12
- Yeah, well, they do say they have found several complete skeletons of the Australopithecus, though not specifically
- 02:19
- Lucy. They found around 360, 362 actual specimens from the species
- 02:28
- Australopithecus, specifically Lucy. However, Charles Oxnard said,
- 02:34
- The Australopithecines known over the last several decades are now irrevocably removed from a place in the evolution of human bipedalism.
- 02:43
- All this should make us wonder about the usual presentation of human evolution in introductory textbooks.
- 02:51
- Now you understand why I've been digging through this chest. I mean, really, the way it looks is that Lucy's just an extinct ape.