Bernard Wood , evolutionist anthropologist :
"When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution looked like a ladder." he [Bernard Wood] says. The ladder stepped from monkey to man through a progression of intermediates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. Now human evolution looks like a bush. We have a menagerie of fossil hominids... HOW THEY ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER AND WHICH , IF ANY OF THEM , ARE HUMAN FOREBEARS IS STILL DEBATED .
John Whitfield, "Oldest member of human family found," Nature, 11 July 2002
Henry Gee - senior editor of Nature and a leading paleoanthropologist :
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all, that the old idea of a 'missing link' is bunk... It should now be quite plain that the very idea of the missing link, always shaky, is now completely untenable .
The Guardian, 11 July 2002 .
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all, that the old idea of a 'missing link' is bunk... It should now be quite plain that the very idea of the missing link, always shaky, is now completely untenable .
The Guardian, 11 July 2002 .
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