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has been ob scured… "The ma jor i ty of our bi as es and pre con cep tions—a
pa le on tol o gists felt their ev i dence sim - proc ess that is, at once, both po lit i cal
ply con tra dict ed Darwin's stress on and sub jec tive.… pa le o an thro pol o gy
minute, slow, and cu mu la tive chan ges has the form but not the sub stance of a
lead ing to spe cies trans for ma tion." . . . sci ence. 170
[but] their sto ry has been sup pressed.
Niles Eldredge of Harvard
169
University and Ian Tattersall of the
American Museum of Natural
History, two of the USA's lead ing
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY
pa le on tol o gists, com ment on pa le -
Paleoanthropology is a branch of on to log i cal find ings:
sci ence that stud ies the or i gin and It is a myth that the ev o lu tion a ry his -
de vel op men tal proc ess of man. to ries of liv ing things are es sen tial ly a
Studies in this field are backed up by mat ter of dis cov ery. If this were true,
many oth er branch es of sci ence, but one could con fi dent ly ex pect that as
the great est use is made of in for ma - more hom i nid fos sils were found the
tion ob tained from fos sils. sto ry of hu man ev o lu tion would be -
come clear er. Whereas if any thing, the
However, as in many oth er
op po site has oc curred. 171
branch es of sci ence, fos sils are in ter -
pret ed in the light of the as sump - Many oth er ev o lu tion ist ex perts
tions of the the o ry of ev o lu tion. on the sub ject al so har bor pes si mis -
Findings ob tained from the fields of tic ideas about the very the o ry they
ar chae ol o gy and eth nol o gy are in ter - sup port. Henry Gee, Nature mag a -
pret ed in a bi ased man ner so as to zine's best-known writer, says that
dem on strate the phys i cal and men - "be tween about 10 and 5 mil lion
tal de vel op ment of man's sup posed years ago—sev er al thou sand gen er -
fore run ners, who must have ex ist ed a tions of liv ing crea tures—can be fit -
ac cord ing to the claims of the the o ry ted in to a small box." The con clu sion
of ev o lu tion. Gee draws from this is very in ter est -
Despite be ing an ev o lu tion ist, the ing:
Arizona State University an thro pol - To take a line of fos sils and claim that
o gist Geoffrey Clark ad mit ted as they rep re sent a lin e age is not a sci en -
much in a text pub lished in 1997: tif ic hy poth e sis that can be test ed, but
an as ser tion that car ries the same va -
We se lect among al ter na tive sets of re -
lid i ty as a bed time sto ry—amus ing,
search con clu sions in ac cord ance with

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