Chimps __Lost__ their bipedalism in the forest. The forest is
where bipedalism went to die.
The good Doctor posits that Chimps are descended from
Australopithecus. I don't expect you to agree and I don't know
if he's right but, I DEFINITELY know that he's thinking along
the right lines.
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The good Doctor doesn't have to get everything exactly right.
Darwin got almost nothing right, and that was with
plagiarizing most of it, and yet you all worship him! Darwin
not only got it all wrong but he was the antithesis of science
-- HE SET SCIENCE BACK two decades in the English speaking
world, by becoming the face of naturalism and rejecting
Mendel. And yet you worship him.
So stop pretending that not only does the good Doctor have
to get everything 100% correct the first time out, and he has
to do it in a way that even a mouth breathing, drool soaked,
knuckle dragging Darwin worshipper can see.
You might as well insist that Algebra can't exist unless I can
make squirrels understand it...
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Look. The popular dating for the LCA is like 6 million years,
based on mtDNA and some imaginary "Molecular Clock."
Choose this date and we are missing 5.5 million years of
Chimp fossils, and most of the Chimp fossils that came
after that.
They're missing too.
NOTE: Push this date back further and you STRENGTHEN
THE POINT HERE. You're not attacking it. You're
strengthening it, proving it's significance. It's like if I say
that "The apple was really expensive. It cost $2" and you
say, "NO! LIES! It cost $3." My point would be that the
apple is expensive, so saying $3 STRENGTHENS the point.
Making the LCA older STRENGTHENS my point here.
Now one hypothesis that explains this is the idea that we've
already found them, we just don't recognize them as Chimp
ancestors. And given how close Chimps are to us, their DNA,
some even argue that Pan should be abolished and Chimps
should be grouped under Homo, and the dating for the LCA
pretty much requires a bipedal ancestor, chances are the LCA
looked a lot more like Homo than Pan.
Looking for Pan, searching for anything on the Pan side post
LCA, we should probably be looking for something that
appears more like Homo than Pan including upright and
bipedal.
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