![]() ![]() It is generally believed but not proven Homo evolved from Austrialopithicus africanus. There is no transitional fossil showing the ancestor of human and chimps but genetic data makes it impossible to deny chimps are our closet relative (ex 99.9% similar DNA). Ancient prosimians diverged to modern day prosimians and apes (consisting of baboons, orangutangs, gorillas, chimpanzee and bonobos). So yes there is enough fossil evidence to prove our ancestry from ancient prosimians, however there is not enough evidence to draw definite conclusions!ĮDIT: I realized I never pointed out how we evolved from ancient prosimians. The migration out of Africa happened between 60-50k years go, as H.sapiens colonized the globe, they faced reproductive admixture with Neandertal and Denosivian populations, as a result Europeans have between 1-4% Neandertal DNA. Homo erectus fossils have been found in africa approximately 1.8 million years ago, Homo sapien fossils have been found approximately 200k years ago in Ethiopia. There is enough fossil evidence to show our evolution from an ancient prosimian ancestor to modern day Homo sapiens. This would not mean "You can't find the 'missing video link' so you can't say he stole the TV!" Well, you know he was there because of the video of him walking in the front and out the back, and fixing the error in the middle camera's video would just show what you already know was there anyway, but would show specifically how he stole the TV (using what tools, for example). Upon video review, the owners might say, "We have video of the guy walking in the front door, and out the back door with the TV, but there were problems with the camera in the middle of the house so we can't pull up video footage of him actually taking the TV off its mounts." The TV is stolen from the middle of the house one night. It was invented by creationists, taking quotes out of context, like a scientists saying, "We haven't yet found a fossil representing ," and creationists eagerly interpret that to mean "Evolution is false until we can find this fossil." No, it just means that we haven't found a fossil representing the moment/era of that change, and one may not have ever fossilized, but we know it's there because of all of the other evidence that proves the change happened.įor example, picture a house that has security cameras in the front, middle, and back of it. You might, then, wonder, "where did the idea come from?" If we ever find a penguin fossil from the Cretaceous period, we’ll know for sure.People have already covered the fact that there's no missing link. “It’s not impossible that penguins lost the ability to fly and gained the ability to swim after the extinction event of 66 million years ago, implying the birds underwent huge changes in a very short time. “We think it’s likely that the ancestors of penguins diverged from the lineage leading to their closest living relatives – such as albatross and petrels – during the Late Cretaceous period, and then many different species sprang up after the dinosaurs were wiped out,” said Paul Scofield, study author and Flinders University professor. And the fossils support the idea that penguins evolved quickly after the dinosaurs went extinct. The gaps and questions actually increase - its extraordinary. ![]() These smaller penguins may have been swimming alongside their larger counterparts. The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. Canterbury MuseumĪ 'monster penguin' as big as a human once lived in New Zealand From press release: A new species of giant penguin - about 1.6 metres tall - has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury. Researchers also found remnants of a larger penguin species on the remote archipelago, but there wasn’t enough material to name it. This discovery causes researchers to question how they’re linked. It was also the first penguin found to be similar in both hind limb and foot shape to modern penguins, Blokland said.Īncient penguin fossils have been found on South Island’s eastern coast, which is 497 miles from the Chatham Islands. Like modern penguins, this ancient one performed best underwater. In this respect, it was more like the penguins of today, meaning it would have waddled on land.” “Kupoupou also had proportionally shorter legs than some other early fossil penguins. “Next to its colossal human-sized cousins, including the recently described monster penguin Crossvallia waiparensis, Kupoupou was comparatively small – no bigger than modern King Penguins, which stand just under 1.1 meters tall,” said Jacob Blokland, study author and a PhD palaeontology candidate at Flinders University. Andrey AtuchinĪncient Europeans lived alongside a half-ton bird nearly 12 feet tall PaleoArt of the bird discovered in a Crimean cave.
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