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American anthropologist Holly Smith in Homo heidelbergensis
1994 again showed that H. habilis was
The classification referred to as H.
not homo at all, but rather a monkey.
heidelbergensis in evolutionist literature
Smith said this about these analyses of
is actually the same as Homo sapiens
the teeth of Australopithecus, Homo ha-
archaic. The reason why these two sepa-
bilis, H. erectus and H. neandertalensis:
rate names are used to describe the same
Restricting analysis of fossils to speci-
human race is the differences of opinion
mens satisfying these criteria, patterns of
among evolutionists. All the fossils inc-
dental development of gracile australo-
luded under the classification Homo hei-
pithecines and Homo habilis remain
delbergensis show that human beings
classified with African apes. Those of
Homo erectus and Neanderthals are very anatomically similar to modern Eu-
classified with humans. 203 ropeans were living in Britain and Spain
500.000 and even 740,000 years ago.
That same year, three experts in ana-
tomy—Fred Spoor, Bernard Wood, and
Frans Zooneveld—arrived at the same
Homo rudolfensis
conclusion using another method. This
was based on a comparative analysis of This is the Latin name given to a few
the semi-spherical canals that serve to fossil fragments discovered in 1972. Since
establish balance in the inner ears of hu- these were unearthed near the River Ru-
man beings and monkeys. The inner ear dolf in Kenya, the species they were assu-
canals of all the Australopithecus and H. med to represent was given the name Ho-
habilis specimens that Spoor, Wood, and mo rudolfensis. The majority of paleoant-
Zonneveld examined by were identical hropologists, however, regard these fossils
to those of modern apes. That of H. erec- not as a new species but as H. habilis—in
tus, on the other hand, was the same as other words, a species of monkey.
that of modern human beings. 204 Richard Leakey, who discovered the
This finding led to two conclusions: fossils, presented the skull—which he
1. The fossils known as Homo habi- estimated to be 2.8 million years old and
lis actually belong to the classification which was given the official designation
Australopithecus, not to Homo, or mo- of KNM-ER 1470, as the greatest disco-
dern man. very in the history of anthropology—and
2. Both H. habilis and Australopithe- thus aroused an immense reaction. Ac-
cus walked with a stoop, and had mon- cording to Leakey, this creature, with a
key-like skeletons. They have nothing to small skull volume like that of Australo-
do with human beings. pithecus and with a human-type face,
was the missing link between Australo-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)