"imagination must fill up many wide blanks" (CHARLES DARWIN, letter to Asa Gray) br br "The world of paleoanthropology is highly contentious..." DAVID PERLMAN br br "If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we've got ..." RICHARD E. LEAKEY, The Making of Mankind br br "The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid..." br DR TIM WHITE 28 April 1983 br br "...the Australopithecines known over the last several decades...are now irrevocably removed from a place in the evolution of human bipedalism..." DR. CHARLES OXNARD, The Order of Man, Yale University Press, p. 332 br br "The phylogenetic outlook suggests that if there weren't a Homo habilis we would have to invent one" MILFORD H WOLPOFF, Nov 1992 br br "To attempt to restore the soft parts is an even more hazardous undertaking..." EARNST A. HOOTEN br br "...perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark..." (DR.