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Aaron G. Filler, MD, Ph.D. is an internationally prominent spinal and nerve neurosurgeon who has served on the faculty of UCLA and the University of London and has been a Medical Director at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In addition to his surgical expertise, he is an inventor and mostra'n més holds patents for some of the major advances in diagnostic medical imaging. mostra'n menys
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Filler felt that these lumbar vertebrae belonged to an entirely new genus among the hominoids, really an entirely new kind of animal. It was a hominoid that not only stood erect, but could not comfortably walk in a stooped-over position as modern apes do. Anthropologists had been convinced that upright posture and walking on two legs must have arisen from an ancestor that did not have an upright posture. That ancestor gave rise to several lines of hominoids including humans and chimpanzees. However, according to Filler, there is no definitive fossil evidence at all to support this conviction. “All the fossil evidence actually points the other way.”
In Filler’s his own words: “And so we have a new possibility: a first human child, born to an ape parent, awkward and erect, and always at a loss to keep up with its quadrupedal proconsulid siblings, but nonetheless the harbinger of a new and remarkable species. The first upright ape was also the first human. In the millions of years that followed, new species branched off and abandoned their upright posture to descend to what we now call ‘ape.’”
I always had reservations about claims that humans descended from apes, and I’m very much aware of the arguments between creationists and evolutionists. I never thought I would live to see a qualified evolutionist turn Darwin’s theory upside down and claim that apes descended from humans. This book will launch a firestorm of debate.… (més)