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<blockquote data-quote="MANTI5" data-source="post: 7665568" data-attributes="member: 627711">&quot;However, if man’s ancestors were not apelike, why do so many pictures and replicas of “ape-men” flood scientific publications and museums around the world? On what are these based? The book The Biology of Race answers: “The flesh and hair on such reconstructions have to be filled in by resorting to the imagination.” It adds: “Skin color; the color, form, and distribution of the hair; the form of the features; and the aspect of the face—of these characters we know absolutely nothing for any prehistoric men.”Science Digest also commented: “The vast majority of artists’ conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence. .*.*. Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more apelike they make it.”&nbsp; Fossil hunter Donald Johanson acknowledged: “No one can be sure just what any extinct hominid looked like.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MANTI5, post: 7665568, member: 627711"] "However, if man’s ancestors were not apelike, why do so many pictures and replicas of “ape-men” flood scientific publications and museums around the world? On what are these based? The book The Biology of Race answers: “The flesh and hair on such reconstructions have to be filled in by resorting to the imagination.” It adds: “Skin color; the color, form, and distribution of the hair; the form of the features; and the aspect of the face—of these characters we know absolutely nothing for any prehistoric men.” Science Digest also commented: “The vast majority of artists’ conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence. .*.*. Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more apelike they make it.” Fossil hunter Donald Johanson acknowledged: “No one can be sure just what any extinct hominid looked like.” [/QUOTE]

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