allé laat ons er nog eens invliegen
Laten we eens kijken wat we vonden over o.a. de australopithecus :
Cro-Magnon Man: essentially identical to modern man with an average brain capacity that is actually greater than the average for modern man.
Neanderthal Man: today universally classified as fully human. In the past, however, these men were pictured as stooped over, semi-erect, sub-human cave men. This was due to the fact that the first specimen found was crippled with arthritis, and therefore evolutionists assumed that the stooped over appearance of the fossil was normal. Furthermore it has been discovered that these people suffered from rickets which causes bone softening and malformation. Today, however, it is known that these people walked fully erect and had an average brain capacity greater than modern man. [34]
Java Man: An ape-like skull cap was found in 1891 by Dutch physician Eugene Dubois in a gravel bed. A year later and 50 feet away he found an essentially human femur. He also added a few teeth to the collection and announced to the world that he had found the missing link. Before he died, however, he admitted that he had also found human skulls (the Wadjak skulls) nearby at approximately the same level, meaning that Java Man could not have been man's ancestor.
Ramapithecus: originally judged to be a hominid on the basis of a few teeth and a few fragments of a jaw. Yet, once again, this conclusion was based on insufficient and misinterpreted information, and has now been rejected based on more complete fossil fragments. Modern conclusions are that Ramapithecus was only an ape.
Australopithecus: These creatures are currently the best candidate for man's ancestor in evolutionary circles. They are associated with the work of the Leakey family and Donald Johanson (the discoverer of "Lucy"; the best specimen but still only 40% complete) in Africa. These fossils are very ape-like with a cranial capacity in the range of a modern gorilla, yet the Leakey's and Johanson insist that they walked upright based on very limited pelvic and limb fossils. However, even if these creatures did walk upright (and scientists by no means agree that they did [35]), this is not relevant since the modern pygmy chimpanzee (the "bonobo") spends much of its time walking upright. As a matter of fact, the pygmy chimp appears to be strikingly similar to "Lucy" in appearance and size as well. [36