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HARUN YAHYA

gramme then says that modern man, on the other hand, attaches
great importance to art and takes great care over it.
What emerges from this anatomical and artistic comparison of
modern and Neanderthal man is not an evolutionary superiority.
The fact that Neanderthals had powerful bodies or narrow fore-
heads is insufficient to demonstrate that they were a primitive
species. For instance, we do not conclude that the large inhabitants

REAL NEANDERTHAL?

1909 Although fossil discov- 1962
eries show that
Neanderthals had no
"primitive" features as
compared to us and
were a human race, the
evolutionist prejudices
regarding them continue
unabated. Neanderthal
man is still sometimes
described as an "ape-
man" in some publica-
tions. This is an indica-
tion of the extent to
which Darwinism rests
on prejudice and propa-
ganda, not on scientific
discoveries.

of Northern Europe are cruder and more primitive than the smaller
Chinese or pygmies. That is because bone and skeletal structure is
not a criterion for judging behavior and intelligence.
On the other hand, if anatomical features are to be regarded as
such criteria, then according to evolutionist logic, Neanderthals
must be regarded as more intelligent than modern man, since evo-
lutionists base human intelligence upon brain size. The brain vol-
ume of Neanderthal man is some 13% greater than that of his mod-
ern counterpart.

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