Message #100681

[Andrew Waters]

Rebecca says,
''The line is clear [on evolution], we just haven't found all the specimens yet.
True... and all we need is a few more thousand years. No wait, make that a few hundred. 

Anyway, apes and humans have a common ancestor—which looked like, what, half human and half ape? I'm puzzled. Did this ancestor walk on all fours or just walk upright. Was it a combination of both. When did it make up its mind? Since the dna linkage is more chimpanzee then how did the apes get in here if it is the common ancestor? Then the ape isn't the common ancestor but the chimp? Yet the chimps are related to the ape, and humans and apes have/share a common ancestor but more genetically unlike each other than the chimps. Do I need my Etch 'n' Sketch pad here. Also I read somewhere a year ago humans and chimps evolved slower than apes. I'm sure that's controversial. Whassup with all this.