[jennyp]

A - E are monkeys and apes, F - L are hominids, i.e. a more advanced branch of the same line as chimps and gorillas than anything we have left, and the last two are humans. DNA studies say humans aren't related to the neanderthal and your pictures clearly show that all the others are further from us than the neanderthal was. We're not related to any of them.

Thanks! Now, to clarify: Which ones specifically do you think are monkeys?

And are you saying that although F-L are hominids, the similarity to humans is purely coincidental? (As in convergent evolution?)

[tomzz]

If I HAD to bet it, I'd bet that A - E were apes rather than monkeys, but I'd not want to have to bet it.

The similarity of hominids to humans such as it is is not coincidental but has nothing to do with evolution. DNA studies show the neanderthal much too far removed to be an ancestor and all other hominids are morphologically further from us than the neanderthal.

Coyoteman notes that researchers have come up with modern human skulls with slight brow ridges which he assumes implies evolution of modern man, but there isn't time.

You've got the Haldane dilemma on one side which says that would take longer than the 70 million years which supposedly separates us from dinosaurs, and on the other hand you have Gunnar Heinsohn's findings which indicate that previous interpretations of stratigraphy are massively in error and that there is no real way to defend a dieout time for neanderthals of more than about 4000 years ago.

Modern man was either genetically re-engineered from the neanderthal or some other hominid, brought here from elsewhere, or created separately. Those are your three choices.