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KANAPOI ELBOW FOSSIL close to the means of the hu man sam -
FRAUD, THE ple. 2
The best ex am ple of how ev o lu - Though ad mit ting the close re -
tion ists in ter pret fos sils ac cord ing to sem blance to the bone of a present-
day hu man, Howells and Patterson
their own pre con cep tions is a fos sil -
ized el bow bone found in the still main tained that the fos sil be -
Kenyan re gion of Kanapoi. This fos - longed to Australopithecus, be cause
sil, dis played in the Kenya National to them, it was un ac cept a ble that
Museum – East Rudolf un der the such an old fos sil could be long to
num ber KP 271, con sists of a part of Homo sa pi ens.
the up per arm bone near the el bow. But sub se quent ly, stud ies per -
Unearthed in 1965 by Bryon formed by oth er re search ers us ing
Patterson of Harvard University, it com put ers again re vealed that the
has been ex ceed ing ly well pre - fos sil KP271 was iden ti cal to a hu -
served. The lat est tests car ried out by man bone. As the re sult of his com -
ev o lu tion ists have shown it to be put er-as sist ed re search, Henry M.
1
around 4.5 mil lion years old. The McHenry of the University of
fos sil is there fore known as the old - California pub lished an ar ti cle in
est hom i nid fos sil dis cov ered to 1975:
date. The re sults show that the Kanapoi
In 1967, the re search ers Bryan spec i men, which is 4 to 4.5 mil lion
Patterson and W.W. Howells joined years old, is in dis tin guish a ble from
for ces to de scribe KP 271. They sug - mod ern Homo sa pi ens… 3
gest ed that the fos sil's anat o my was After this, var i ous oth er re search -
sim i lar to that of hu man be ings and ers (in clud ing David Pilbeam and
that it be longed to Australopithecus. Brigitte Senut) have al so per formed
Howells and his as sist ant Patterson ex per i ments and com par a tive stud -
an nounced the re port re gard ing ies prov ing that the bone is iden ti cal
their re search in the 7 April, 1967 to H. sa pi ens. Yet de spite all the ev i -
edi tion of Science mag a zine, in which dence, even the ev o lu tion ists who
they stat ed: car ried out all this re search were un -
In these di ag nos tic meas ure ments, a ble to ad mit, on ac count of their
Kanapoi Hominoid 1 [the orig i nal own pre con cep tions, that this fos sil
name giv en to the fos sil] is strik ing ly could be long to H. sa pi ens.

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