Leakey replied, "I would challenge Tim to find any primate in which you would see the same degrees of variation as those that we are seeing between our new fossils and KNM-ER 1802".
Leakey mu je replicirala: "Izazivam Tima Whitea da pronađe bilo kojeg živućeg primata čija je varijacija među jedinkama isto tako velika kao između novootkrivenih fosila i KNM-ER 1802".