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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

The fossil known as
Kenyanthropus platyops,
found in 2001, further in-
validates the evolutionists'
claims regarding the so-
called evolution of man.

ries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even in-
structive, but not scientific. 32

Daniel E. Lieberman, of the George Washington University
Anthropology Department, made the following comment in a state-
ment issued regarding the fossil Kenyanthropus platyops, found in 2001:
The evolutionary history of humans is complex and unresolved. It
now looks set to be thrown into further confusion by the discovery of
another species and genus, dated to 3.5 million years ago… The na-

ture of Kenyanthropus platyops raises all kinds of questions, about
human evolution in general and the behavior of this species in partic-
ular… I suspect the chief role of K. platyops in the next few years will
be to act as a sort of party spoiler, highlighting the confusion that con-
fronts research into evolutionary relationships among hominins. 33
The evolutionist paleontologists C. A. Villee, E. P. Solomon, and P.

W. Davis admit that man emerged suddenly on Earth—in other words
with no evolutionary ancestor before him—by saying, "We appear sud-
denly in the fossil record." 34

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