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Evolutionist sci en tists gen er al ly make de duc tions on the ba sis of a few frag ments of
bone in their pos ses sion. (Richard Leakey, sec ond from left, and Donald C. Johanson
on the far right.)

showed him the meager evidence we've got, he'd surely say, 'Forget it:
there isn't enough to go on.” 276
Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin:
Many discoveries of supposed hominids consist of only a mouth frag-
ment, a leg bone, a hip bone, or a knee joint. 277
If someone went to the trouble of collecting into one room all the fossil re-
mains so far discovered of our ancestors (and their biological relatives)
who lived, say, between five and one million years ago, he would need
only a couple of large trestle tables on which to spread them out. And if
that were not bad enough, a not unusually commodious shoe box would
be more than sufficient to accommodate the hominid fossil finds of be-
tween fifteen and six million years ago. 278
The human mind has shown itself to be particularly fertile for generating
notions about the nature of mankind, but only when those notions are
subject to the scrutiny of different scientific disciplines can the more fan-
ciful theories be weeded out. In learning about hominid history we have