Leaving Lucy in the Dust—The Case of Kenyanthropus platyops
||Bert Thompson, Ph.D. Brad Harrub, Ph.D. “The first definite
hominids, Australopithecus, appeared about 5 million years ago
in Africa. They lived on the ground, weighed less than 20
kilograms, and were less than 1.3 meters tall. They disappeared
about 1.3 million years ago” (Raven and Johnson, 1989, p. 437).
This quote is from a textbook I was assigned in a general
biology class during my undergraduate studies. While the name
Australopithecus may not be familiar, the name that
evolutionists gave to the creature supposedly responsible for
human bipedal locomotion probably is one you have heard: Lucy.
Lucy’s skeleton was discovered at Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974 by
Donald C. Johanson, who at the time was the curator of physical
anthropology at the Cleveland, Ohio Museum of Natural History.
Described as “remarkably complete” in the Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Human Evolution (see Jones, et al., 1992, p. 237), the
skeleton (that of a female creature) is appro