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might have looked like, based on a with an im ag i nary be ing by shap ing
piece of bone that has been un - those soft tis sues how e ver he sees fit.
earthed. All the ape-men one sees in As Earnst A. Hooton says:
news pa per and mag a zine il lus tra - To at tempt to re store the soft parts is
tions are re con struc tions. an even more haz ard ous un der tak ing.
However, since the fos sil rec ords The lips, the eyes, the ears, and the
re gard ing the or i gin of man are gen - na sal tip leave no clues on the
er al ly scat tered and de fi cient, any un der ly ing bony
es ti ma tions based on them de pend
large ly on im ag i na tion. Accordingly,
re con struc tions of the fos sils are de -
signed to tal ly in line with the re -
quire ments of the ide ol o gy of ev o lu -
tion. The Harvard University an -
thro pol o gist David Pilbeam em pha -
siz es this: "At least in pa le o an thro -
pol o gy, da ta are still so sparse that
the o ry heav i ly in flu en ces in ter pre ta -
tions. Theories have, in the past,
clear ly re flect ed our cur rent ide ol o -
gies in stead of the ac tu al da ta." 200
Only the very gen er al fea tures of
a crea ture can be pro duced based on
bone re mains alone. The re al ly dis -
tin guish ing fea tures are the
soft tis sues, which soon dis -
ap pear over the course of
fos sil i za tion. It is easy for an
ev o lu tion ist to come up

This pic ture, based on a skull
bone, is a good ex am ple of the
im ag i na tive way in which ev o -
lu tion ists in ter pret fos sils.

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