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at once, the fact would be fa tal to the
the o ry of de scent with slow mod i fi -
ca tion through nat u ral se lec tion."
Some 60 dif fer ent class es be gan life
sud den ly and si mul ta ne ous ly in the
Cambrian Period. This con firms the
pic ture de scribed by Darwin as a
"fa tal" blow.
TURKANA BOY FOSSIL, THE
The Turkana Boy's fos sil ized skull
The most fa mous Homo erec tus
fos sil dis cov ered in Africa is the
Nariokotome ho mo erec tus or Turkana
Laughlin's con clu sion was that all
Boy fos sil found near lake Turkana
these dif fer ent ra ces in fact be longed
in Kenya. It has been de ter mined
to Homo sa pi ens (hu man):
that this fos sil be longed to a 12-year-
When we con sid er the vast dif fer en ces
old male who would have reached
that ex ist be tween re mote groups such
around 1.83 me ters (5'6" feet) in
as Eskimos and Bushmen, who are
height when ful ly grown. Its up right known to be long to the sin gle spe cies of
skel e ton is iden ti cal to that of any Homo sa pi ens, it seems jus ti fi a ble to
mod ern hu man. The American pa le - con clude that Sinanthropus [an erec -
o an thro pol o gist Alan Walker says tus spec i men] be longs with in this same
that he doubt ed that the av er age pa - di verse spe cies. 266
thol o gist could tell the dif fer ence be -
tween the fos sil skel e ton and that of
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a mod ern hu man , be cause Homo
erec tus is in fact a mod ern hu man
race.
Professor William Laughlin of
Connecticut University spent years
re search ing Eskimos and the in hab -
it ants of the Aleut is lands and ob -
served a strik ing lev el of sim i lar i ty
be tween them and Homo erec tus.
Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar