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of at least two significant new specimens living today. But the child died 800,000
were combined in favor of the higher years ago! This was a surprising disco-
commercial value of the forgery, and very for evolutionists, who did not hope
both were nearly lost to science. Paleon-
that Homo sapiens (modern-day human
tology was also badly damaged by the beings) lived so long ago. (See Imagi-
Piltdown forgery and the “lying stones”
nary Human Family Tree, the.)
of Johann Beringer, and many fossils ha-
The December 1996 issue of Disco-
ve been unwittingly or deliberately sub-
very magazine gave it wide coverage.
jected to misleading reconstruction. 46
This fossil even shook the convictions
(See Piltdown Man.)
about evolution of the head of the Gran
Dolina research team, Arsuaga Ferreras,
Atapuerca Skull, the
who said:
In 1995, three Spanish paleontolo-
We expected something big, something
gists from the University of Madrid fo- large, something inflated—you know, so-
und a fossil in the Gran Dolina cave in mething primitive. Our expectation of an
Spain’s Atapuerca region. It was a secti- 800,000-year-old boy was something like
on of the facial bones of an 11 year-old Turkana Boy. And what we found was a
child that is identical to human children totally modern face. . . To me this is most
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