The Evolution Deceit Richard Leakey, who discovered the fossils,
presented the skull—which he estimated to be 2.8 million years
old and which was given the official designation of KNM-ER 1470,
as the greatest discovery in the history of anthropology—and
thus aroused an immense reaction. According to Leakey, this
creature, with a small skull volume like that of
Australopithecus and with a human-type face, was the missing
link between Australopithecus and man. However, it was later
realized that the human facial features of KNM-ER 1470, which
had appeared on the covers of various scientific journals, were
errors, made perhaps even deliberately in assembling the skull
fragments. Professor Tim Bromage, who conducted research into
the anatomy of the human face, summarized his findings produced
with the aid of computer simulations in 1992: When it [KNM-ER
1470] was first reconstructed, the face was fitted to the
cranium in an almost vertical position, much like the flat faces
of modern humans. But recent studies of