Man...Apes...Australopithecines...each Uniquely Different by
Duane Gish, Ph.D. For many years it has been the consensus among
evolutionists that the australopithecines (various species
within the genus Australopithecus) were intermediate between Man
and the apes, indicating that this creature was on the direct
evolutionary line between Man and the hypothetical common
ancestor of apes and Man (see Evolution: The Fossils Say No!, D.
T. Gish, pp. 72-112). The first specimen was discovered by Dr.
Raymond Dart in 1924. Dr. Louis Leakey and his wife Mary in 1959
uncovered the skull of a creature they named Zinjanthropus
bosei, which they claimed at the time was hitherto unknown and
was an important link in man's evolution. Later research by
others and by Leakey, himself, established that his
Zinjanthropus ("East Africa Man") was simply another variety of
Australopithecus ("Southern Ape"). Leakey even began to suggest
the possibility that the australopithecines were outside of the
direct line leading to man — a ster