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HARUN YAHYA

The Turkana Boy
The Turkana Boy
The best-known of the Homo erectus fossils found in Africa is the
so-called “Turkana Boy” discovered near lake Turkana in Kenya. The
fossil is that of a 12-year-old child who, it is estimated, would have
grown to a full height of 1.83 meters. The fossil’s erect skeletal structure
is identical to that of modern-day humans. The American paleontolo-
gist Alan Walker says that he doubts “the average pathologist could tell
the difference between the fossil skeleton and that of a modern human”.
Walker says that he laughed when he saw the skull, because “it looked
so much like a Neanderthal.” 147 Homo erectus is, therefore, a modern
human race.
The conclusion reached by scientists who sup-
port the above thesis can be summarized as follows:
H. erectus is not a different species from H. sapiens, but
a race within our species. There is a huge gulf be-
tween H. erectus, a human race, and the apes that
precede it in the “human evolution” scenario:
Australopithecus, H. habilis and H. rudolfensis). In
other words, the first human fossils to appear in the
fossil record emerge suddenly and at the same
time, with no evolutionary process.

Alan Walker and Richard Leakey

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