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The Result of the Analysis of the Inner Ear:
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THERE WO TRANSITION FROM APE TO MAN
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Harun Yahya

A comparative analysis of
the semi-circular canals
in the inner ear in both
humans and apes shows
that the fossils long por-
trayed as the forerunners
of human beings were all
in fact ordinary apes. The
species Australopithecus
and Homo habilis had the
inner ear canals of an
ape, while Homo erectus
had human ones.

nomic subdivision of "early
Homo") should be removed from
Homo. The obvious taxonomic al-
ternative, which is to transfer one
or both of the taxa to one of the ex-
isting early hominin genera, is not
without problems, but we recom-
mend that, for the time being,
both H. Habilis and H.
Rudolfensis should be transferred
to the genus Australopithecus. 80
The conclusion of Wood and

Collard corroborates the conclu-
sion we have maintained
here:"Primitive human ancestors" do not exist in history. Creatures that are alleged to be so are actually apes
that ought to be assigned to the genus Australopithecus. The fossil record shows that there is no evolutionary
link between these extinct apes and Homo, i.e., human species that suddenly appears in the fossil record.

Homo Erectus and Thereafter: Human Beings

According to the fanciful scheme suggested by evolutionists, the internal evolution of the Homo genus is
as follows: First Homo erectus, then so-called "archaic" Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man (Homo sapiens nean-
derthalensis), and finally, Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens sapiens). However all these classifications are really
only variations and unique races in the human family. The difference between them is no greater than the

difference between an Inuit and an African or a pygmy and a European.
Let us first examine Homo erectus, which is referred to as the most primitive human species. As the name
implies, "Homo erectus" means "man who walks upright". Evolutionists have had to separate these fossils
from earlier ones by adding the qualification of "erectness", because all the available Homo erectus fossils are

straight to an extent not observed in any of the australopithecines or so-called Homo habilis specimens. There
is no difference between the postcranial skeleton of today’s man and that of Homo erectus.

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