Evolutionists Concede Early Humans Could Walk Normally

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Evidence indicates humans' early tree-dwelling ancestors were also bipedal

ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2010) — More than three million years ago, the ancestors of modern humans were still spending a considerable amount of their lives in trees, but something new was happening.
So did we live in trees or did we live in caves? I'm so confused.

David Raichlen, an assistant professor in the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, and his colleagues at the University at Albany and City University of New York's Lehman College have developed new experimental evidence indicating that these early hominins were walking with a human-like striding gait as long as 3.6 million years ago.

The results of their research appears in PLoS ONE, a journal from the Public Library of Science.

A trackway of fossil footprints preserved in volcanic ash deposited 3.6 million years ago was uncovered in Laetoli, Tanzania, more than 30 years ago. The significance of those prints for human evolution has been debated ever since.
 

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So did we live in trees or did we live in caves? I'm so confused.
Sorry about your confusion. New information can be such a bother, always forcing us to think about stuff. I suggest you stick with your Dinotopia Treetown and leave it at that. It'll save you the headache of thinking about it.
 
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Sorry about your confusion. New information can be such a bother, always forcing us to think about stuff. I suggest you stick with your Dinotopia Treetown and leave it at that. It'll save you the headache of thinking about it.
Multiple choice fail.

It's (a) trees or (b) caves.

So which is it?
 
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Multiple choice fail.

It's (a) trees or (b) caves.

So which is it?

You're right, you did have a "Multiple choice fail".

3 million years ago... bipedal little guys in trees.

20 to 100 thousand years ago, at least some of us lived in caves.

It's like asking if Irish people live in Boston or Dublin and expecting only one answer to be correct.
 
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3 million years ago... bipedal little guys in trees.
Bipedal little guys live in trees today.

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20 to 100 thousand years ago, at least some of us lived in caves.
Some of us live in caves now e.g. Lester Ballard and Osama Bin Laden.

Does that mean modern men are cavemen?

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I want to know how you keep one step ahead in the intellectual devolution.
"While, however, the statements which the Ancients made on these points were correct, they yet omitted to defend their arguments with logical proofs; of course they never suspected that there could be sophists so shameless as to try to contradict obvious facts. ... For I find that a great many things which have been conclusively demonstrated by the Ancients are unintelligible to the bulk of the Moderns owing to their ignorance -- nay, that, by reason of their laziness, they will not even make an attempt to comprehend them; and even if any of them have understood them, they have not given them impartial examination. The fact is that he whose purpose is to know anything better than the multitude do must far surpass all others both as regards his nature and his early training. And when he reaches early adolescence he must become possessed with an ardent love for truth, like one inspired; neither day nor night may he cease to urge and strain himself in order to learn thoroughly all that has been said by the most illustrious of Ancients. And when he has learnt this, then for a prolonged period he must test and prove it, observing what part of it is in agreement, and what in disagreement with obvious fact; thus he will choose this and turn away from that. To such an one my hope has been that my treatise would prove of the very greatest assistance. Still, such people may be expected to be quite a few in number, while, as for the others, this book will be as superfluous to them as a tale told to an ass." -- Galen, philosopher/physician, On the Natural Faculties, Book III, 2nd century
 
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I would just like to point out that modern day chimps, gorillas, and other primates are most certainly capable of bipedal locomotion IN ADDITION to whatever other forms they use (knuckle walking, brachiation, etc). It isn't an either/or thing.

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Interesting but irrelevant.

Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found

The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin's time, that a chimpanzee-like missing link—resembling something between humans and today's apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree. Indeed, the new evidence suggests that the study of chimpanzee anatomy and behavior—long used to infer the nature of the earliest human ancestors—is largely irrelevant to understanding our beginnings.
 
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All previously known hominids—members of our ancestral lineage—walked upright on two legs, like us. But Ardi's feet, pelvis, legs, and hands suggest she was a biped on the ground but a quadruped when moving about in the trees.

The article you sourced contains that line. Your own source refutes your false dichotomy.

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Susa, your honestly just getting boring now. Just posting the same sh*t over and over.
How bored are you if you're spending time replying to boring threads?
 
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