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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

HOMO ERECTUS'S SAILING CULTURE
"Ancient mariners: Early humans were much smarter than we suspected" According to
this article in the March 14, 1998, issue of New Scientist, the people that evolutionists call
Homo erectus were sailing 700,000 years ago. It is impossible, of course, to think of
people who possessed the knowledge, technology and culture to go sailing as primitive.

variation arises when populations are geographically separated from each
other for significant lengths of time. 200
Professor William Laughlin from the University of Connecticut made
extensive anatomical examinations of Inuits and the people living on the
Aleut islands, and noticed that these people were extraordinarily similar
to Homo erectus. The conclusion Laughlin arrived at was that all these
distinct races were in fact different races of Homo sapiens (modern man):
When we consider the vast differences that exist between remote groups
such as Eskimos and Bushmen, who are known to belong to the single
species of Homo sapiens, it seems justifiable to conclude that Sinanthropus [an
erectus specimen] belongs within this same diverse species. 201
It is now a more pronounced fact in the scientific community that
Homo erectus is a superfluous taxon, and that fossils assigned to the Homo
erectus class are actually not so different from Homo sapiens as to be
considered a different species. In American Scientist, the discussions over
this issue and the result of a conference held on the subject in 2000 were
summarized in this way:
Most of the participants at the Senckenberg conference got drawn into a
flaming debate over the taxonomic status of Homo erectus started by Milford
Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, Alan Thorne of the University of

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