“Closet creationist no doubt. But that last line IS good, if RDy didn’t look like “some thing in between” chimps and humans, what exactly does it look like? “
—It was a mix of human features (more than expected), chimp features (fewer than expected), and some other features lost in both the human and chimp lines. (Thus it doesn’t look like either a human or a chimp, nor a mere blend of the two).
“a blend” is just what “something in between” is.