Ну так, але вони не мають жодних доказів тому. Ну знайдіть в інтернеті відповіді на прості питання. Яка мавпа предок людини ?
Повторюся, я не спеціаласт із антропології. Але час від часу доводиться натикатися на такі дисткусії, які завершуються копирсанням у науково-популярних статтях, із яких випливає, якщо відсіяти жовтий шлак, що є проміжні лінки, є предки, причому постійно робляться нові відкриття, що доповнюють еволюційний ланцюжок. Більше не буду шукати посилань, захочете поцікавитися темою - знайдете самостійно.
Наостанок ось така цитата, пардон, не з російської вікі, і англійською, але вже яка є:
Introduction: Human Evolution
12:16 04 September 2006 by John Pickrell
The incredible story of our evolution from ape ancestors spans 6 million years or more, and features the acquirement of traits from bipedal walking, large brains, hairlessness, tool-making, hunting and harnessing fire, to the more recent development of language, art, culture and civilisation.
Darwin's The Origin of Species, published in 1859, suggested that humans were descended from African apes. However, no fossils of our ancestors were discovered in Africa until 1924, when Raymond Dart dug up the "Taung child" - a 3-million to 4 million-year-old Australopithecine.
Over the last century,
many spectacular discoveries have shed light on the history of the human family. Somewhere between 12 and 19 different species of early humans are recognised, though palaeoanthropologists bitterly dispute how they are related. Famous fossils include the remarkably complete "Lucy", dug up in Ethiopia in 1974, and the astonishing "hobbit" species, Homo floresiensis, found on an Indonesian island in 2004.
Walking tall
Humans are really just a peculiar African ape - we share about 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. Genetics and fossil evidence hint that
we last shared a common ancestor 7 to 10 million years ago - even if we continued hybridising long after.
At around 6 million years ago, the first apes to walk on two legs appear in the fossil records. Despite the fact that many of these Australopithecines and other early humans were no bigger than chimps and had similar-sized brains, the shift to bipedalism was highly significant. Aside from our large brain, bipedalism is perhaps the most important difference between humans and apes, as it freed our hands to use tools.
Bipedalism may have evolved when drier conditions shrank dense African forests. It must have allowed our ancestors to spot predators from further away, reach hanging fruit from the ground, and reduce exposure to sunlight. Evidence that Australopithecines walked upright includes analysis of the shape of their bones and fossilised footprints.
One famous member of the species
Australopithecus afarensis is the remarkably complete fossil found by palaeaoanthropologist Donald Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia in 1974. The 3.2-million-year-old fossil was named Lucy, after the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
She stood around 1.1 metres (3.5 feet) tall and although she walked on two legs, she probably had a less graceful gait than us, since she walked with them bent.
Scientist's have modelled her gait using computers. Their characteristic long arms and curved fingers suggest that at least some Australopithecines were still good climbers.
Hundreds of other fossils of Australopithecus afarensis have now also been discovered.
Other related early human species include Australopithecus africanus - such as the Taung child - 3.5-million-year-old Kenyanthropus platyops, 5.8-million to 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus, 5.8-million-year-old Orrorin tugenensis and 6 million year old Sahelanthropus tchadensis.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9990-instant-expert-human-evolution.html#.VL2Lno10zbh
