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The problem is that some of the erectus finds are actually ape and others clearly sapien and these two have sometimes been mixed or blended giving the appearance of them being one creature (we saw this in Java Man and Peking Man). The evidence could just as well indicate both species living in close proximity and one eating the other but nothing indicated social/sexual interaction or reproduction. Thus any speculation on cultural comparisons would be tainted by the plausibility that this has occurred. Though the current beliefs are dominated by the errors of appeal to authority and argumentum ad populum we actually know very little factually speaking.

Renowned evolutionist Ernst Mayr, (What Makes Biology Unique?, p. 198, Cambridge University Press, 2004) revelaed to us that "The earliest fossils of Homo… are separated from Australopithecus by a large, unbridged gap. How can we explain this seeming saltation? Not having any fossils that can serve as missing links, we have to fall back on the time-honored method of historical science, the construction of a historical narrative."

That being true what happens is revealed here...David Pilbeam in, "Pro-Evolution", Vol. 14, p.127, "...in my own subject of Paleo-anthropology the "theory" heavily influenced by implicit ideas, almost always dominates data...ideas that are totally unrelated to actual fossils have dominated theory building, which in turn strongly influences the way fossils are interpreted."

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