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Ancient Man

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Some experts believe that these apes, the Australopithecines,

descended from another ape, the “Ramapithecines” (“Rama-

pithecus” is the singular for this word), which is supposed to have lived 12 million years ago.

“No proven ancestor is known for any early Australopithecus,

nor for any early Homo [habilis].”— W. Mehlert, “The Australo-

pithecines and (Alleged) Early Man,” in Creation Research Soci-

ety Quarterly, June 1980, p. 25.

Homo habilis is another ape. In the 1960s, *Louis Leakey found some teeth and skull fragments at Olduvai. He dated them at

1.8 million years ago and decided they belonged to the human fam-

ily, therefore naming them Homo. (People are classified as Homo Sapien). But many experts, including *Brace and *Metress have clearly shown that habilis was nothing more than a large-brained Australopithecus.

Brain sizes: Human beings have a brain size of about 1500

cc. (cubic centimeters). In contrast, habilis was 660 cc. Other brain sizes would be 800 cc. for Hadar, 900 cc. for Koobi Fora. Most

other brain sizes are about 500 cc. The Taung and Sterkfontein skulls are around 430 cc. apiece, so an adult of their species would only

be 550-600 cc. Thus on the score of size of braincase, these finds

prove nothing.

An excellent and detailed article on this, which includes 13

charts and graphs, will be found in “Some Implications of Variant Cranial Capacities for the Best-preserved Australopithecine Skull Specimens,” by Gerald Duffert (Creation Research Society Quarterly, September 1983, pp. 96-104). The article reveals that there was evidence of fraudulent measurements of those ancient African skulls. Repeatedly, when initially measured a high cubic

centimeter volume was announced for the skull, but later

remeasurements by other investigators disclosed much smaller

measurements!

“Overall, the revisionary calculations of australopithecine skulls

have led to reductions of their calculated volumes. The total per-

centage differences amount to—157.91.”—* Op. cit., p. 100.

“The hypothesis that brain enlargement marked the beginning of

man was long popular, but went out of fashion with the discovery

that the endocranial volumes of the australopithecine group were

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not larger than those of gorillas.”—* Elwin L. Simons, Primate

Evolution: An Introduction to Man’s Place in Nature (1972), p.

278.

Speaking of the Australopithecines, *J.S. Weiner commented:

“The apelike profile of Australopithecus is so pronounced that its outline can be superimposed on that of a female chimpanzee

with a remarkable closeness of fit, and in this respect and others it stands in strong contrast to modern man.”—* J.S. Weiner, The Natural History of Man (1973).

In 1957, *Ashley Montague, a leading U.S. anthropologist,

wrote that these extremely apelike creatures could not possibly

have anything to do with man (*A. Montegue, Man’s First Million Years).

After the most careful research, *Oxnard and *Zuckerman have

come to the conclusion that Australopithecus is an ape, and not human, and not a transition between the two.

“Dr. Charles Oxnard and Sir Solly Zuckerman were leaders in

the development of a powerful multivariate analysis procedure. This

computerized technique simultaneously performs millions of com-

parisons on hundreds of corresponding dimensions of the bones of

living apes, humans, and the australopithecines. Their verdict, that the australopithecines are not intermediate between man and living

apes, is quite different from the more subjective and less analytical visual techniques of most anthropologists.

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