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Restricting analysis of fossils to specimens satisfying these criteria, pat-
terns of dental development of gracile australopithecines and Homo habilis
remain classified with African apes. Those of Homo erectus and
Neanderthals are classified with humans. 294
Stephen J. Gould:
What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of
hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis), none
clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display any
evolutionary trends during their tenure on Earth. 295
Evolutionist paleontologists Claude A. Villee is professor of bio-
logical chemistry at Harvard Medical School, Eldra P. Solomon is li-
censed psychologist at Center for Mental Health Education, Tampa,

Florida, and Percival William Davis is a professor of life science at
Hillsborough Community College:
We [humans] appear suddenly in the fossil record... 296
Niles Eldredge and Ian Tattersall are paleontologists on the cura-

torial staff of the American Museum of Natural History.
It is a myth that the evolutionary histories of living things are essentially
a matter of discovery. If this were true, one could confidently expect that
as more hominid fossils were found, the story of human evolution would
become clearer. Whereas if anything, the opposite has occurred. 297
Henry Gee editor in Nature magazine:

... the chain of ancestry and descent... [is] a completely human invention
created after the fact, shaped to accord with human prejudices.... To take
a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific
hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same va-
lidity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not sci-
entific. 298

John Durant is a historian at Oxford University; from a meeting at
the British Association for the Advancement of Science:
Could it be that, like "primitive" myths, theories of human evolution re-
inforce the value-systems of their creators by reflecting historically their
image of themselves and of the society which they live? 299