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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

scendant relationships; that there is no missing link; and that human be-
ings are not observed to have followed a gradual development. He also
states that the living species in the plan emerged in completely different
places. 85
Gee again emphasizes the lack of evidence for the so-called evolu-
tion of mankind:
Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to var-
ious interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent alto-
gether. 86
He is not alone in making admissions of this kind. In an article in
Nature, Professor Bernard Wood of George Washington University
writes, that the evolutionary origins of Man are shrouded in darkness:
It is remarkable that the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest
known representatives of our own genus, Homo, remain obscure. Advances in
techniques for absolute dating and reassessments of the fossils themselves have
rendered untenable a simple unilineal model of human evolution, in which
Homo habilis succeeded the australopithecines and then evolved via H. erectus
into H. sapiens—but no clear alternative consensus has yet emerged. 87

Richard C. Lewontin, professor at Harvard University’s Museum
of Comparative Zoology, admits that there is no evidence of so-called
human evolution in the fossil record:
When we consider the remote past, before the origin of the actual species Homo
sapiens, we are faced with a fragmentary and disconnected fossil record.
Despite the excited and optimistic claims that have been made by some paleon-
tologists, no fossil hominid species can be established as our direct ancestor. . . .
The earliest forms that are recognized as being hominid are the famous fossils,
associated with primitive stone tools, that were found by Mary and Louis
Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere in Africa. These fossil hominids
lived more than 1.5 million years ago and had brains half the size of ours. They
were certainly not members of our own species, and we have no idea whether
they were even in our direct ancestral line or only in a parallel line of descent
resembling our direct ancestor. 88

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