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source of disappointment for evolutionists. 1
Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University has sincerely ad-
mitted the problematic nature of evolutionary scenarios on human

origins:
When we consider the remote past, before the origin of the actual
species Homo sapiens, we are faced with a fragmentary and discon-
nected fossil record. Despite the excited and optimistic claims that
have been made by some paleontologist, no fossil hominid species
can be established as our direct ancestor. 2
Henry Gee, senior editor of Nature, in an article published in

July 12, 2001 admits that despite all the paleontological excava-
tions, no evolutionary links between humans and chimpanzees,
which are our supposed closest living relatives, have been estab-
lished:

Moreover, it remains the case that although hominid fossils are fa-
mously rare, the chimpanzee lineage has no fossil record whatso-
ever. 3
Henry Gee is not alone in making confessions of this kind.
Professor Bernard Wood of George Washington University, for in-

stance, says in an article in Nature that the taxonomic and phyloge-
netic relationships surrounding man's evolutionary origin are still
shrouded in darkness, stating:
It is remarkable that the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships

of the earliest known representatives of our own genus, Homo, re-
main obscure. Advances in techniques for absolute dating and re-
assessments of the fossils themselves have rendered untenable a
simple unilinear model of human evolution, in which Homo habilis
succeeded the australopithecines and then evolved via H. erectus
into H. sapiens—but no clear alternative consensus has yet
emerged. 4

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