The anomolous list will take a while to look at...Could you point to those which are English and mainstream?...It is unfortunate that the latest of them is 1981 and none of them are probably going to be available on the web for us to review.
Yeah, examining that list would probably be extremely tedious, and if you spent much time trying to sort through it (and I hope you didn't), I apologize. It isn't very nice to shove a list of books at your opponent to examine, and I'll try not to do that again.
And yes, it isn't as mainstream (or english) as would be condusive to debate. I might spend the time to research some of the list, but until then I think I'll leave it alone.
If by "human" you mean genus Homo then, yes, I think that is correct. However, the footprints are, I think, taken as being astralopithicine such as Lucy. The anatomy of those could produce walking as in the footprints.
I don't believe Lucy was bipedal, but that is a seperate debate which I don't have time for right now, and shouldn't have opened up.
What specimens did they have which preserved such soft tissue or gave hints of it?...[more questions follow]
ARRRRGHH! I wish I had access to that article. I had my entire argument based on it, and I was hoping that wouldn't be a problem. If I didn't have to, I wouldn't have posted it.
However, I had promised Crashfrog that I would respond to his post about the prolecantids, and the article was all I had to go on. It had been more than a month and I felt like I needed to respond, so I did, even though the stupid article disappeard.
Anyway, I don't have much/any evidence for this debate, and I am very busy with the "evolution compared with creation 'science'" thread; is it ok with you if I leave this thread?