[quote = Psudopod]
[/list]Notedstrangeperson has explained one of the two things you have highlighted was a typo. Nakalipithecus, you have highlighted with a mocking thumbs up because there were two ancestors listed. What's wrong with this? One will be historical to the other. Just as my grandmother and my great grandmother are both my ancestors; the existance of one does not refute the existance of the other.
[quote = Astridhere]Oh stop clowning around. You lot simply have stuff all fossils for your chimp and gorilla ancestry. You can carry on with whatever nonsense you wish. The sad fact for you is that your lack of ancestors for both gorillas and more importantly chimpanzee is acknowledged by your own researchers.
There is no debate here. This is a fact. [/quote] [/quote]
I'm not clowning around, I'm addressing your point, perhaps you could try it? Your point was that there were two ancestors listed for the same decendent species, and you thought that was clearly wrong, hence your mocking thumbs up smiley. It's not clowning around to address the fact that if you understand biology let alone evolution, multiple ancestors not only makes sense, it's necessary! Don't like being made to look stupid, don't make mock what you do not understand.
To address your new point raised here, yes, there are less ancestors in the chimp / gorrila lines that we have discovered so far. You're right, Us crazy evolutionists with our honesty about what we have found. You're right, there is no debate. That's why no one is debating you on it! There are some, so your comment about stuff all is false, there was a list mentioning several in my last post copied from another poster who showed them to you a few posts earlier. But fossilisation is a rare process and in some environments happens barely at all. That's the way it is, physical processes do not bow to our wims.
[quote = Pusdopod]Had a quick read up on proconsul and nothing suggests it's discredited. There appear to be four discovered species, and it has old-world monkey and ape traits, placing it somewhere between the split between old-world monkeys and apes, making it a distant human ancestor.
[quote =astridhere]Then you did not look hard enough.
Proconsulidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [/quote] [/quote]
That's the very aritcle I read first. Nothing in there says it is decredited, and the article describes it as having traits from old world monkeys and apes, so is likely to come just before the split of the two groups.
[quote =Psudopod]And Ida wasn't discredited, just likely to be a side branch, rather than a direct human ancestor.
[quote =astridhere]Spooking a fossil is in the human line then not is a descreditiation to the initial theoryy and all the woffle behind it. It is that simple. [/quote][/quote]
No, the only thing that is discredited is that Ida is a direct human ancestor. The way you talk it's like Ida's gone the way of Piltdown man, and that's pretty dishonest of you. Ida is a great uncle, not a granfather species, but the fossil itself is not discredited.
[quote =astridhere]Bipedalism is an ape trait because apes were bipedal first, like Lucy the ape and Ardi the ape. Even your researchers agree bipeda have been around for about 20my way before mankind and any chimp/human split. [/quote]
And like Astridhere the ape and Psudopod the ape. Yes it's a trait in apes, yes it appeared much earlier than first expected, yes its still a human trait. No one's arguing with the facts, just your bizzare assertions.
Apes of all kinds do not have totally dependent offspring. An ape baby clings to its' mother from birth. A human baby does not. It is an obvious difference that separates mankind from ape based on the one non homoplasic trait around, superior intelligence and higher reasoning ability, abstract thought and the sophisticated language that goes with it.
Again, you are wrong. It is not what separates us from apes, it is what separates us form other apes. The same way spots separate dalmations from other dogs. Or are you going to claim dalmations are not dogs, as your logic suggests.
What you need is a hairy ape, still with clinging neonates, with a large brain capacity comparable to modern humans that is intelligent enough to deminish the independence of a neonate 1.5mya. A neonate is not going to survive unless its mother is sufficiently intelligent to meet all it's needs, which requires abstract thought and reasoning ability not demonstrated in the small neural canal of erectus/ergaster. Were erectus also having babies yearly like mankind with no birth control, as opposed to every 4/5 years as in apes? Were these half wits carrying a bunch of kids around the savanah or forest with them? Were they smart enough to mash up the leaves and nuts and friut to wean a child with a human digestive system onto solids?
You claim Erectus is a hairy ape with clinging neonates and an intelligence just below that of modern humans, and then ask how it is going to care for a depentent infant when it's utterly stupid? You are contradicting yourself utterly. Not to mention that you don't seem to understand that all mammals go through weaning, no matter what the intelligence of parent or offspring.