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14 KNM-ER 1470 Fraud, The

de scribes why: ER 1470 was in ter pret ed as hu man
However its rel a tive ly ro bust ly con - for a while lies in the bi ased and
struct ed face, flat tish na so-al ve o lar lead ing in ter pre ta tion of its dis cov -
cliv us (re call ing aus tra lop i the cine er er, Richard Leakey. He sought to
dish ed fa ces), low max i mum cra ni al give the im pres sion that al though
width (on the tem po rals), strong ca - the fos sil had ape-like fea tures, the
nine ju ga and large mo lars (as in di cat - skull was too large to be that of an
ed by re main ing roots) are all rel a tive -
ape. The aim was to de scribe the
ly prim i tive traits which al ly the spec -
crea ture as an in ter me di ate form.
i men with mem bers of the tax on A. af -
Professor Tim G. Bromage, a re -
ri ca nus . . . KNM-ER 1470, like oth er
search er in to the anat o my of the hu -
ear ly Homo spec i mens, shows many
man face, sum ma ri zes the facts he
mor pho log i cal char ac ter is tics in com -
re vealed with com put er-aid ed sim u -
mon with grac ile aus tra lop i the ci nes
la tions in 1992:
that are not shared with lat er spec i -
mens of the ge nus Homo. 8 When it [KNM-ER 1470] was first re -
con struct ed, the face was fit ted to the
C. Loring Brace of the Museum of
cra ni um in an al most ver ti cal po si tion,
Anthropology, Michigan University
much like the flat fa ces of mod ern hu -
says this on the same sub ject:
mans. But re cent stud ies of an a tom i cal
. . . from the size of the pal ate and the
re la tion ships show that in life, the face
ex pan sion of the ar ea al lot ted to mo lar
must have jut ted out con sid er a bly, cre -
roots, it would ap pear that ER 1470 re -
at ing an ape-like as pect, rath er like the
tained a ful ly Australopithecus -sized 11
fa ces of Australopithecus.
face and den ti tion. 9
KNM-ER 1470's 750-cu bic cen ti -
Another well known pa le on tol o -
me ter skull does not in any way
gist, Bernard Wood, makes this com -
make it a hom i nid and pre vent it
ment:
from be ing an ape spe cies, be cause
There is no ev i dence that this cra ni um
there are apes with just such a skull
par tic u lar ly re sem bles H. sa pi ens or H.
vol ume. In re fer ring to ape skulls,
erec tus ac cord ing to ei ther phe net ic or
ev o lu tion ists gen er al ly point to
cla dis tic ev i dence. Phenetically, KNM-
chim pan zees, with a small er-sized
ER 1470 is clos est to the re mains from
brain, but nev er men tion go ril las.
Olduvai [con sid ered apes by cre a tion -
Chimpanzees have an av er age brain
ists] re ferred to as H. ha bi lis. 10
vol ume of 400 cu bic cen ti me ters.
The rea son why the fos sil KNM-
Gorillas have an av er age brain size
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