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es known as Homo antecessor, to which However, it was gradually realized that
they ascribed the Atapuerca skull. these two remains were not reliable. (Se-
e Java Man, Peking Man.) For that rea-
son, more and more importance began to
Homo erectus be attached to the H. erectus fossils dis-

Evolutionists regard the classificati- covered in Africa. (Also, some evolutio-
on Homo erectus, meaning “upright- nists included some of the fossils descri-
walking human,” as the most primitive bed as H. erectus in a second class, Ho-
species on the fictitious human family mo ergaster. by. The matter is still a sub-
tree. They have had to separate these hu- ject of debate.)
mans from other, earlier classes by me- The best-known of the H. erectus
ans of the title upright, because all the H. specimens discovered in Africa is Nari-
erectus fossils we have are erect in a okotome homo erectus or the so-called
manner not seen in specimens of Austra- Turkana Boy. The fossil’s upright skele-
lopithecus or Homo habilis. There is no ton is identical to that of modern man.
difference between H. erectus skeletons 201 Therefore, H. erectus is a human ra-
and those of modern human beings. ce that is still in existence today. (See
Evolutionists’ most important gro- Turkana Boy, the.)
unds for regarding H. erectus as “primi- Professor William Laughlin of the
tive” are the fact that its brain volume University of Connecticut carried out
(900 to 1100 cubic centimeters) is smal- lengthy anatomical research into Inuit
ler than the modern human average, and and the inhabitants of the Aleut Islands
also its thick protruding eyebrow ridges. and noted that these people bore an asto-
The fact is, however, that a great many nishingly close resemblance to H. erec-
human beings today have a brain size tus. Laughlin’s conclusion was that all
identical to that of H. erectus (pygmies, these races are actually different races all
for example), and eyebrow protrusions belonging to H. sapiens, ¸or today’s man:
can also be seen in various contempo- When we consider the vast differences
rary human races, such as native Austra- that exist between remote groups such as
lians. It is a known that there is no corre- Eskimos and Bushmen, who are known to
lation between brain size and intelligen- belong to the single species of Homo sa-
ce and ability. Intelligence varies not ac- piens, it seems justifiable to conclude
cording to brain size, but according to its that Sinanthropus [an erectus specimen]
internal organization. 200 belongs within this same diverse species
[H. sapiens]. 202
The fossils that introduced H. erectus
to the world were Peking Man and Java There is an enormous gulf between
Man fossils, both discovered in Asia. Homo erectus, a human race, and the

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