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This tremendous similarity between the various ancient human [[fossils]] causes considerable difficulty for the evolutionist who attempts to place the discoveries in various categories. The African early ''Homo sapiens'' have been referred to as "African Neanderthals", and Asian ''Homo erectus'' fossils have been called "Asian Neanderthals". In fact some scholars treat Neanderthals as a population of late ''Homo erectus'', describing their skulls as an "''enlarged and developed version of the ''Homo erectus'' skull''".<ref name=lubenow128/> Jerome Cybulski (National Museum of Man, Ottawa) speaks to the difficulties in characterizing ''H. erectus'' on morphological grounds: | This tremendous similarity between the various ancient human [[fossils]] causes considerable difficulty for the evolutionist who attempts to place the discoveries in various categories. The African early ''Homo sapiens'' have been referred to as "African Neanderthals", and Asian ''Homo erectus'' fossils have been called "Asian Neanderthals". In fact some scholars treat Neanderthals as a population of late ''Homo erectus'', describing their skulls as an "''enlarged and developed version of the ''Homo erectus'' skull''".<ref name=lubenow128/> Jerome Cybulski (National Museum of Man, Ottawa) speaks to the difficulties in characterizing ''H. erectus'' on morphological grounds: | ||
{{cquote|Indeed, one may well wonder whether agreement will ever be reached as to which fossils do belong to or represent the taxon, and on what morphological-cum-phyologenetic grounds fossil hominids are or are not to be regarded as Homo erectus''.<ref name=lubenow128/>}} | {{cquote|Indeed, one may well wonder whether agreement will ever be reached as to which fossils do belong to or represent the taxon, and on what morphological-cum-phyologenetic grounds fossil hominids are or are not to be regarded as ''Homo erectus''.<ref name=lubenow128/>}} | ||
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