Okay Google...

I have a serious bone to pick with Google. Just recently, Google paid tribute to Lucy, one of our first ancestors by displaying a lapse of our evolution in a similar form of the word "Google." This same image of evolution is the one that is seen everywhere. That being said I want to say thank you to Google for recognizing Lucy's discovery date (not that it's anything special, Google finds all the interesting lesser known dates and recognizes them), but I'm seriously irritated with this display. 

Google, did you hire an artist and let them interpret the theory of evolution? We humans are not evolved from apes as it is shown in the image. You would think the all knowing Google would have at least known this. Homo sapiens sapiens link our ancestry back to a common cousin of the knuckle walker, but studies have shown that our chimp like ancestors were not as chimp like as we think. They were likely not knuckle walkers. So Google, by showing that Lucy came from a knuckle walker, you are implying that we too come from knuckle walkers (knuckle walkers that look like chimps). Everyone knows that we did not evolve from the chimp we see today.

Okay Google, now that we've discussed the faultiness in your first link in the chain evolution; lets take a look at Lucy. Lucy is a species known as Australopithecus Afarensis, and she would have walked upright. We know this because of her bone structure, and how similar it is to our own. While Lucy did have some anatomical differences like a thinner pelvic bone and longer arms, she was in fact a bipedal female. But Google depicts her as a hunched over creature. There is no in between stage of knuckle walking and upright walking, you either do it full time or you don't. Lucy also has a cone like head in her depiction. However Lucy's skull was actually quite flt, she did not have much of a forehead, so why she is depicted as having an awkwardly shaped head is unknown to me.

Google, for the first time ever you have failed me. The amount of traffic you get a day is insurmountable. The people who see your image and what it denotes is unfathomable. Displaying human beings as a descendants of chimps is false and sets back so many years. As if there were not already enough people believing that science is telling us we evolve from apes, now we have Google telling people too. Because Google is such a prominent search engine, what they do matters. People believe so much of what they see on the internet and for a credible and knowledgeable company to botch the theory of evolution is pretty dumbfounding.