The drawing does show that Ardi had curved fingers, and even humans have curvature. You can check yourself. The human relaxed hand does have curvature. The curvatuer in Australopithecines is actually intermediate between humans and other apes.
I requested an explanation of the mystery of the thumb. Actually apes have all different varieties of curvature as not all apes are tree swingers. Researchers however choose to use a knucklewalking tree swinger example as the outgroup for comparison. There is more glory in finding an ape and strawgrabbing the human similarities than to find an ape that is just an ape. This is too bad because the serious gap in your chimp ancestors basically says it all.....
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Now explain why what I actually requested. Sediba, about the only fossil with ankle bones, displays tree climbing ability in both feet and hands at 2mya and has evolved a thumb longer than either Ardi or mankind yet is dated in the middle? Do you agree or disgaree that Sediba belongs in the human line?
I say she will be soon railroaded to the garbage bin of evolutionary delusions past off as irrefuteable evidence for evolution just like Ardi, Lucy and probably erectus. You do know that erectus is now being challenged and has been found to be very sexually dimorphic and even less human that thought.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070813093132.htm
.and all this made up from a few skull caps that could belong to a variety of apes like the female Bornean orang.
That's the whole point. Intermediates should have basal ape features. That's what makes them intermediate.
No actually, apes have similarities to mankind today. Evolutionsists just pick and choose the similarities as a straw grab. This is evidenced by the many cousins and NO direct ancestors that remain stable for any period of time. Many of the reconstructions made up as evidence for evolution are from a single bone, given a complete body and life story to go with it.
They look human like to me. What is your beef?
Well, you think you are an ape, just because an unstable science tells you so.
What is the cranial capacity for Turkana boy, and how does it compare to modern humans and other apes? It is intermediate, is it not?
No actually I do not believe these convoluted algorithms say anything about grey matter at all. I think it is about scientists wasting their money grabbing at straws.
Various sources list the maximum brain size of gorillas as 650 cc, 700 cc, or in the case of one exceptional specimen, 752 cc (Tobias, 1964). There is great variety. However the variety of ape and mankind is not accounted for in algorithmic insertions values. Turkana Boy had a supposed measurement of 880cc. The rest is even more guess work. So Turkana Boy is not so far outside of the range of a large ape.
Your researchers cannot agree on Turkana Boys age (8-15). They can no more than guess alot of this stuff and try very hard to humanize every fossil ape.
So a transitional has to be identical to modern humans in every way?
No..you guys need transitional, even if it is just for a year or so as flavour of the month.
But they are not challenged as transitional fossils. These fossils contain a mixture of modern human and basal ape features. That is what makes them transitional.
In that case chimps are also transitional are they? No, they are not as what your research clearly defines is that mankind is not descendant from any ape species alive today. Hence the requirement for you to find ancestors that keep disappearing from the human lineage.
Ardi is the one that is probably not in the direct human line. H. erectus is the strongest candidate out of all of them for being in the direct human lineage. For the other fossils, I would say that there is not enough evidence to include them in the direct human line, but they do have features that are transitional that they would have inherited from their common ancestor with modern humans.
You can find similar connections to anything eg mankind and frog legs. Every variety of ape is going to share some similarities. So basically it is an open book to pick and choose what you wish when you wish and herald this as evidence for evolution even if it is only for a short while.
Do you not think that any of the discarded intermediates are the ancestors of any of todays apes? Be careful here because I believe I can produce research to say some are. Why do you think your chimpanzee and other primates do not have good fossil evidence? I say it is because apes looked very different once upon a time and every variety of ape that does not resemble todays varieties are shoveled into the human line. My evidence is your lack of fossil evidence for any other primate apart for mankind.
It is also possible that Sebida is a cousin to H. erectus and has preserved features from a more ancient common ancestor with H. erectus. This is something that Darwin discussed quite a bit, the preservation of transitional features in collateral lineages.
Possibly, likely and maybe is NOT science. Any non pluasible scenario does not give a theory merit.
This researcher says Sediba is in the human line. Other esearch I have posted suggests erectus is not. So do you disagree with this very well credialled scientist?
We know that you believe it. However, you have yet to demonstrate how this evidence supports magical poofing.