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| | Chapter 13 Ancient Man Part 1 |
 | | In 1983, *Jeremy Cherfas said that Lucy’s ankle bone (talus) tilts backward like a gorilla, instead of forward as in human beings who need it so to walk upright, and concluded that the differences between her and human beings are "unmistakable" (*J. Cherfas, New Scientist, (97:172 [1982]). | | | These were human bones, but with a somewhat smaller brain capacity (1,000cc., which some people today have), and with the prominent brow ridges which we find in Neanderthals and Australopithecus. | | | This computerized technique simultaneously performs millions of comparisons on hundreds of corresponding dimensions of the bones of living apes, humans, and the australopithecines. |
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http://www.evolution-facts.org/Ev-Crunch/c13a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Human Race |
| | The other bones of the skeleton were not made the object of exhaustive study until more recent times. | | | Particular attention should be made, as important in the comparative anatomy of races, of the cross-section of the diaphysis of the long bones, and of the position of the epiphyses to the diaphysis. | | | Around this type are grouped the others, which are related both to it and one another. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12620b.htm
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| | Articles - Talus |
| | In anatomy, the talus bone of the ankle joint connects the leg to the foot. | | | Talus (which is Latin for ankle-bone), has several meanings: | | | In architecture, the slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top, to resist the pressure of the earth behind it. |
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http://www.fineshoes.net/articles/Talus
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