I wish people who claim evolution knew how evolution works. They don't either. Showing silly pictures of less hairy apes along a time line is as dumb as the formation pictures of life from the fertilization of the egg that we look like chickens, frogs...that are still in text books today. Including this chart of human evolution
. We actually don't have that much similarity of DNA between Chimps and Humans. Not even close. The guy that put together a bones of the so-called ancestors back 5 million years ago had to force the bones to try and make them appear to be human related.
To place Ardi into human ancestry, as these authors insisted, creates more problems than it solves. For example,
Ardipithecus' body structure shows no objective or undisputable transition toward uniquely human features. The authors themselves listed some of these differences: Humans have unique and interdependent sexual organs and reproductive biochemistry, unique feet, ankles and musculature, unique hip structure, unique teeth and crania, totally unique cognitive abilities, a distinct "gut structure," upright walking, unique vocal apparatus, a "precipitous reduction of olfactory receptors," mammary glands that retain a stable size, unadvertised female proceptivity, and an "unusually energy-thirsty brain."3
Speculation and evolutionary guesswork, not scientific observations, are offered to bridge these gaps. Consistent with this is the broad use of speculative verbiage on the part of the authors. In the eleven papers in
Science, the word "probably" appeared about 78 times, and "suggest," "suggesting," "suggestive," or "suggests" were used 117 times, among other terms that are associated with an unsubstantiated story rather than a scientific description. -
https://www.icr.org/article/4982
Ardi, Ardi, Ardi... how about Lucy? Same problems...Evolutionary guesswork, not scientific observations permeates evolutionary science. Fuzzy words used to fool the suckers into thinking these scientists know what they are talking about.