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To: varmintman

The only other alleged variety is the Orang-Pendek, a crypto-animal, and those attributed to it look like a gorilla’s. Neither one looks like Neandertal.

Gorilla male foot:
http://www.worldofstock.com/stock-photos/closeup-of-gorilla-foot/NAN2887


28 posted on 04/01/2012 7:25:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
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To: SunkenCiv
gorilla male foot

Still looks more like the Neanderthal footprint than ours do.

Scholars who studied Neanderthals early on claimed they had prehensile feet:

Our image of Neanderthals as "dim-witted brutes" originally came from Marcellin Boule, a French authority on fossils who reconstructed a near complete skeleton found in southwestern France, and claimed it had "prehensile feet, could not fully extend his legs, and thrust his head awkwardly forward because his spine prevented him from standing upright." In his scientific paper he described the "brutish appearance of this muscular and clumsy body."

That accords quite well with the real footprints but not, as I note, with reconstructions meant for idiot yuppies such as you see in the Natural History Museum, which as the image clearly shows, have human-like feet and, again, the problem appears to involve the pseudo-religion of Evolutionism.

Boule's claim of them not being able to completely extend their legs or stand totally upright has also been borne out and is accurate.

29 posted on 04/01/2012 8:09:28 AM PDT by varmintman
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