Page 95 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Even evo lu ti onist me dia or ga ni za ti ons
and sci en ti fic jo ur nals desc ri bed
Sa he lanth ro pus as a fin ding that roc ked
Dar winist as sump tions.

Gee states that no pattern of
evolution can be extracted from the

fossil record, and that there is only
a number of unrelated fossils
"floating around in an over-
whelming sea of gaps":
New fossil discoveries are fit-
ted into this preexisting story.
We call these new discoveries
"missing links", as if the chain
of ancestry and descent were
a real object for our contem-
plation, and not what it really
is: a completely human inven-
tion created after the fact,
shaped to accord with
human prejudices. . . .