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of Spain. The fact that this fossil has the identical to those of modern human be-
same characteristics to those of modern ings, have been calculated to date back
man rocked evolutionist beliefs regar- some 3.6 million years.
ding the evolution of man. Because ac- These footprints discovered by Mary
cording to the evolutionary family tree, Leakey were later examined by such
no Homo sapiens should have lived well-known paleoanthropologists as
800,000 years ago. Don Johanson and Tim White.
Indeed, many findings showed that Examinations of the morphological
H. sapiens goes back even further than structure of the footprints again showed
800,000 years. One of these was the dis- that they had to be regarded as belonging
coveries made in Olduvai Gorge by Lou- to a human and, what is more, to modern
is Leakey in the early 1970s. Leakey de- man, Homo sapiens. Russell Tuttle in-
termined in the Bed II stratum that Aus- vestigated the prints and later wrote:
tralopithecus, Homo habilis and H. erec- A small barefoot Homo sapiens could ha-
tus had all lived there together and at the ve made them. . . In all discernible morp-
same time. hological features, the feet of the indivi-
However, the really interesting thing duals that made the trails are indistingu-
was a structure—the remains of a stone ishable from those of modern hu-
mans. 210
hut—found by Leakey in that same stra-
tum (Bed II). Its most interesting aspect Unbiased investigations described
was that such a structure, which is still in the owners of these two sets of foot-
use in some African regions today, could prints: There was a total of 20 fossilized
have been made only by Homo sapiens! footprints belonging to a human being
According to Leakey’s findings, Austra- aged around 10, and 27 fossilized foot-
lopithecus, Homo habilis, H. erectus and prints belonging to someone slightly yo-
modern man must all have been living unger. They were very definitely normal
together around 1.7 million years ago. human beings just like ourselves.
209 This fact of course invalidates the The fact that evolutionists persist in
theory of evolution that maintains that their theory that clearly conflicts with
modern human beings evolved from the the scientific findings, and the way that
monkeys described as Australopithecus. they distort or ignore every discovery
Moreover, there are findings of tra- that works against it, clearly reveals that
ces of modern human beings that go theory’s unscientific nature.
back even further than 1.7 million years.
The most important of these is the foot-
Homo sapiens archaic
prints found in the Laetoli region. (See
Laetoli footprints, the.) These prints, Homo sapiens archaic represents the

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)