But Ardi, while past the initial link stage, possesses enough ape and hominid traits to show what those true common ancestors would have looked like, he says.
"It's the first find that we have that is really informative about what that last common ancestor was like."
Could you please be so kind as to explain how these statements from the article disprove the Evolutionary theory?
On a side note, I’m almost postive that this:
“may have first sprung up some six million years before Ardi”
- was a misquote or misspeak.
I think he meant (or actually said) that the last common ancestor was six million years ago - not six million years before Ardi (which would push it back to about 10 million years ago).
If Ardi is already essentially what we expect in a common ancestor, and is essentially a chimp/human hybrid, than pushing the actual ancestor back an additional 6 million years would make no sense.
Statements from other scientists also indicate that this was a misquote/misspeak:
“This is not that common ancestor, but it’s the closest we have ever been able to come,” said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_sc/us_sci_before_lucy