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Homology ..the name given to the anatomical correspondences between different species that biologists and pale- ontologists have noted and studied for centuries. (p. 178) If the Darwinian interpretation of homology is correct, then you would expect to find at the microscopic level the same homologies that are found at the macroscopic level. In fact, this is not what has been found. (p. 179) In contrast to the first decades of the twentieth century, when human anthropology and the study of human evolution was the most important subject of scientific study, it has today been relegated to vir- tual obscurity and has become the province of a relatively small number of talented individuals, work- ing in isolation. In some respects, the evolution of the human species has become almost a taboo subject, too hot to han- dle politically, and equally dangerous scientifically. Riddled with doubt and smarting from numerous embarrassing mistakes and forgeries, like Piltdown man, evolutionists have quit the field almost entirely. (p. 194) Then there is the crucial gap: the gap between the hypothetical ape-like primate ancestor and ourselves. Despite scores of candidates, the glass cabinet marked “missing link” remains tantalizingly empty. No primate paleontologist has gone on record as admitting such a heretical thought, but it is hard to resist the conclusion that it is now likely to remain empty. (p. 201) Evidence was also found that, far from predating Cro-Magnon (modern) humans, the Neanderthals lived at the same time and possibly mixed freely with Cro-Magnons. (p. 202) Just why Lucy should have been restored to have humanlike hands and feet, contrary to the known ana- tomical facts, remains a mystery which only her restorers can explain. (p. 207) Sheldrake has sought answers to the unexplained mysteries thrown up by research that are usually ignored by science. When a laboratory rat has learned a new trick in one place, other rats elsewhere seem to be able to learn it more easily...When some birds first learned to open milk bottles on the door- step, birds all over the country suddenly learned the same trick...Sheldrake’s solution to these puzzles, proposed in his 1983 book, A New Science of Life, is that organisms and species can learn, develop, and adapt through a process he called morphic resonance. (p. 215) Living things are built on universal templates called morphogenic fields, says Sheldrake, through which some plants and animals are able to regenerate damaged or missing tissue, as the salamander or starfish can grow a new leg. (p. 215) The editor of Nature magazine, John Maddox, ran an editorial calling for the book to be burned—a sure sign, many will think, that Sheldrake is onto something important. (p. 216) 180 Appendix B: Book Abstracts The Missing Link, Still Missing Neanderthal Man Fakery in High Places Rupert Sheldrake Morphic Resonance Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation