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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

ied the fossil, opposes the classification of Sm4 as a transitional form,
stating that the differences observed in the Indonesian fossil skull stem
from natural variety seen in any species. Mowbray says this in his inter-
pretation on National Geographic’s website:
If you look at modern human populations, you see people with skulls that are
short and round, and skulls that are long and narrow; these are normal vari-
ances within any population. 166
In short, evolutionist speculation regarding the Sm4 fossil is based
on no scientific evidence. Sm4 is the fossil of a human being, and not a
transitional form.

In 2001, Haile Selassie, an anthropologist at the
University of California, claimed that the fossil he
had discovered in Ethiopia was the first ancestor of
man. Given the name Ardipithecus ramidus kaddaba,
it supposedly represented a half-human half-ape
creature that evolutionists had been hoping to find

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