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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

is revealed that “To date, 11 hominid specimens have been recovered at
five localities since the first (a partial mandible) was recovered from
Alayla in 1997.” 171 The toe fragment was discovered in 1999, and is 0.6
million years younger than the other bones found. In other words, all
the bones found do not belong to the same creature, nor even to crea-
tures which lived in the same period!
Interpreting bones collected in such a way, commenting about the
features of a living thing, and attempting to locate this creature some-
where in human evolution is nothing more than propaganda, and has
nothing whatsoever to do with science.

2. The fossil’s tooth structure conflicts with the imaginary tree of
human evolution:
Morphologically speaking, A. r. kaddaba is regarded as part of the
Ardipithecus group, since it bears certain similarities to Ardipithecus

ramidus which Tim White found in 1992. However, the fossil’s tooth
structure is inconsistent with that grouping, because the fossil is 1.5 mil-
lion years older than the one discovered in 1992. As stated in Time, how-
ever, the 4.4 million-year-old teeth of ramidus have more ape-like
features than the 5.8 million-year-old kaddaba teeth. In other words, the
younger fossil’s teeth are more ape-like than those of the older one. But
according to the evolution theory, the ape-like structures should disap-
pear as time goes by. This fact, reported by evolutionists as insignificant,
is actually important in revealing that the imaginary ape-man chronol-
ogy is full of inconsistencies.
Donald Johanson, a professor of anthropology and director of the
Institute of the Human origins at Arizona State University, refers to
the preconceived classification being made:
. . . when you put 5.5 million-year-old fossils together with 4.4 mil-

A toe bone claimed to belong
to A. r. kaddaba

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