Australopithecus was fully ape, closer to chimp.
World-renowned anatomists and evolutionists Solly Zuckerman and Charles
Oxnard have shown that Australopithecus did not walk upright in a human
manner.
Australopithecus africanus and robustus are far more humanlike
than
apelike. A. afarensis falls somewhere between human and ape,
perhaps
more on the side of ape. A. ramidus is even more apelike.
The claims that africanus and robustus are fully ape are
based
on
old and discredited accounts from just a couple of papers. Oxnard
himself considered Australopithecus to be a human ancestor (Groves
1999). The vastly greater evidence that those species are fully
bipedal and had other humanlike traits is either ignored, distorted,
or baselessly dismissed by creationists (Foley 1997).
