Debunking Evolution Clip: Lucy

Now, Donald Johansson, 1973, discovered just the shin and the leg bone.

Now the way they line up makes scientists think that she could walk upright. There's a picture of her.

Wow. There's a lot of her missing. Hey, at least it's more than a tooth. It's true.

You want to see the fragments of the skull that they found? Sure. All right. Wait for it.

Booyah. Wow. That's what they found.

Not that much. Man, there's a lot of skulls in here. Was your grandpa a witch doctor?

No, he was a yard sailor. Now, looky what we have here. We have here a modern bonobo monkey skull, and we have

Lucy. So the brown pieces are the actual fragments of Lucy's skull that they found.

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.

Take a look at the way that Lucy has been portrayed in like the media, like books and films, online.

Wow. Everywhere. They really went out of their way to make her look human -like.

Take a look in our other biology book. Oh, wow. Hey, look at the whites of those eyes.

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.

Man, it even looks like she's thinking about something. Yeah, bananas.

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.

That's true. Here's a picture of what she probably looked like. Man, what a difference.

Yeah, well, they do say they have found several complete skeletons of the Australopithecus, though not specifically

Lucy. They found around 360, 362 actual specimens from the species

Australopithecus, specifically Lucy. However, Charles Oxnard said,

The Australopithecines known over the last several decades are now irrevocably removed from a place in the evolution of human bipedalism.

All this should make us wonder about the usual presentation of human evolution in introductory textbooks.

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.