First ape woman: Only 4ft tall and rather hairy, meet your 4.4million-year-old ancestor
I am always amused by how scientists are so eager, so blindly passionate to find life on other planets or to prove man evolved from lower order of animals. It is not science, it is religion and I believe human evolution will always be missing that species-to-species, fully developed transitional form, but here comes the latest candidate (We should up to our butts in such fossils, if it were true).
She lived at the dawn of a new era, when chimps and people began walking (or climbing) along their own evolutionary trails (Just guessing).
This is Ardi - the oldest member of the human family tree we’ve found so far.
Short, hairy and with long arms, she roamed the forests of Africa 4.4million years ago.
Her discovery, reported in detail for the first time today, sheds light on a crucial period when we were just leaving the trees.
Experts believe Ardi is very, very close to the ‘missing link’ common ancestor of humans and chimps, thought to have lived five to seven million years ago.
’This is not that common ancestor, but it’s the closest we have ever been able to come,’ said Dr Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, who reports the discovery today in Science. The first fossilised and crushed bones of Ardi were found in 1992 in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift.
A few evolutionists here are probably turned on by this hot, hairy babe, which picture is wholly the figment of the imagination of some artist; and yet to their dismay this is NOT a missing link.
If humans evolved from apes or ape-like creatures, when did this happen? With more than 5000 fossils or fossil fragments of apes, chimps, and humans allegedly showing stages of human evolution, which ape-like animal had enough human characteristics for us to say “this one has just crossed the boundary from ape to human”?
The short answer is “it never happened,” and the fossils show this. Here’s what we mean.
First, there is disagreement among evolutionists about where to place many of the fossils, because they don’t all fit into a fully accepted sequence. Many fossils are set aside because they can’t be placed neatly in the ape-to-man scenario, or because they appear in the wrong time-frame.
This is why evolutionists have largely abandoned the idea that human evolution was linear, even though the alternative doesn’t help them either because it leaves them with a whole lot of unconnected fossils.
Second, here is an amazing fact: None of the ape fossils shows enough specific human features for evolutionists to say without doubt that this is the point where an ape turned human, and none of the human fossils shows enough specific ape characteristics to indicate that they have actually evolved from apes.
Well, I don’t want to spoil the fun for evolutionists, but “This is not that common ancestor.”
