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DARWINISM REFUTED
HOMO ERECTUS AND THE ABORIGINES
The Turkana Boy skeleton shown at the
side is the best preserved example of
Homo erectus that has so far been
discovered. The interesting thing is that
there is no major difference between
this 1.6 million-year-old-fossil and
people of our day. The Australian
aboriginal skeleton above particularly
resembles Turkana Boy. This situation
reveals once again that Homo erectus
was a genuine human race, with no
"primitive" features.
Even the evolutionist Richard Leakey states that the differences
between Homo erectus and present-day man are no more than racial
variance:
One would also see differences: in the shape of the skull, in the degree of
protrusion of the face, the robustness of the brows and so on. These
differences are probably no more pronounced than we see today between
the separate geographical races of modern humans. Such biological
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