bare-foot-of-young-woman-walking-at-home-closeup-stockpack-a-500147124-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Stuart Burgess Date February 23, 2026 CategoriesAnatomyIntelligent Design Tagged , __featured2, anatomy, ankle fusion, ankle performance, apes, arched feet, arches, Arches National Park, Australopithecus afarensis, Carol Ward, cuboid bone, cuneiform bone, D. J. Meldrum, E. E. Sarmiento, Energy, engineering, Ethiopia, fibula, flat feet, foot, Foot and Ankle International, football, fossils, Hadar, Homo sapiens, HOMO: Journal of Comparative Human Biology, human foot, humans, irreducibly complex systems, jig, keystones, lateral arch, linkage system, lower body, Lucy, medial arch, midfoot, Nathan Lents, P. J. Mitchell, Roman arch, shock, squash, talus bone, tibia, Utah Appreciating the Irreducible Complexity of the Human Foot Stuart Burgess February 23, 2026 Anatomy, Intelligent Design 9 In the fossil record there are no transitional forms between the arched feet of humans and the flat feet of apes. Read More ›