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HARUN YAHYA

2002, edition of Nature magazine, John Whitfield confirmed this view by
using a quotation from George Washington University evolutionist pa-
leontologist Bernard Wood:
When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution looked like a ladder.
The ladder stepped from monkey to man through a progression of intermedi-
ates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. . . . ... Now human evolution looks
like a bush. . . . How they (fossils) are related to each other and which, if any of
them, are human forebears is still de-
bated. 162
Nature, July 11, 2002
With regard to the newly discovered
fossil, the comments of Henry Gee, editor
of Nature magazine and a prominent
palaeoanthropologist, were of great im-
portance. In an article published in The

Guardian newspaper, he touched on the de-
bate on the fossil:
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once
and for all, that the old idea of a “missing
link” is bunk. . . . But it should now be
quite plain that the very idea of the missing
link, always shaky, is now completely unten-
able. 163

Discovered in 2000 and de-
scribed as “the Millennium Man,”
Orrorin tugenensis is a species
based on twelve small fossils. The
French researchers who discov-
ered the fossil, Martin Pickford