Gotcha.
Just seemed a bit odd to be listed there. Not picking a fight.
Just seemed a bit odd to be listed there. Not picking a fight.
Nor did I interpret it as such. It was a civil question.
I suspect the Smithsonian folks who put the picture together put modern chimpanzee at one end and modern humans at the other as an illustrative device.
There is a terrible lack of fossils from the forests in the 5-10 mya year range. Only when critters headed for the grasslands did we start getting a better fossil record.
I'm out for the night.