Page 161 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

The detailed analyses conducted by American anthropologist Holly
Smith in 1994 indicated that Homo habilis was not Homo, in other words,
human, at all, but rather unequivocally an ape. Speaking of the analyses
she made on the teeth of Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus and
Homo neanderthalensis, Smith stated the following;

Restricting analysis of fossils to specimens satisfying these criteria, patterns
of dental development of gracile australopithecines and Homo Habilis
remain classified with African apes. Those of Homo erectus and
Neanderthals are classified with humans. 190
Within the same year, Fred Spoor, Bernard Wood and Frans
Zonneveld, all specialists on anatomy, reached a similar conclusion
through a totally different method. This method was based on the
comparative analysis of the semicircular canals in the inner ear of
humans and apes, which allow them to maintain their balance.
Spoor, Wood and Zonneveld concluded that:
Among the fossil hominids the earliest species to demonstrate the
modern human morphology is Homo erectus. In contrast, the semi-
circular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to
Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great
apes. 191
Spoor, Wood and Zonneveld also studied a Homo habilis

specimen, namely Stw 53, and found out that "Stw 53 relied less
on bipedal behavior than the australopithecines." This meant
that the H. habilis specimen was even more ape-like than the
Australopithecus species. Thus they concluded that "Stw 53
represents an unlikely intermediate between the morphologies
seen in the australopithecines and H. erectus." 192

Femur KNM-ER 1472. This femur is no different from that of
modern man. The finding of this fossil in the same layer as Homo
habilis fossils, although a few kilometers away, gave rise to
incorrect opinions, such as that Homo habilis was bipedal. Fossil
OH 62, found in 1987, showed that Homo habilis was not bipedal,
as had been believed. Many scientists today accept that Homo
habilis was a species of ape very similar to Australopithecus.

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