Why are there no fossil records of intermediate species between humans and the great apes.?

Question

There exists a plethora of titles and names for kinds of intermediate species but, where is the fossils records of a half-man-half-ape. Show us the pictures.

This question was synthesized on the basis of ignorance, hence the term "question". It was not an implication of argument directed towards evolutionists. Please, no pusillanimous replies.

Answer 1

Man did not evolve from apes.
Chimpanzees are our closest relative genetically speaking, and we had a common ancestor about 4 million years back. Our genus, “homo" (which means ‘man’ in latin) came about roughly 1.2 million years ago. Since that time there have been at least a dozen different species that evolved within this genus! (Think homo neanderthalis, etc.) But homo sapiens (that’s us) is the only one that survives today.

Like I said, chimpanzees are our closest genetic relative – current estimates are that our DNA is about 95% identical. Those other species that were part of our genus were even more closely related to us, but they’ve all gone extinct. (How do we know all that? DNA analysis, studying the fossils, etc.)

Chimpanzees, humans, gorillas, whatever living primate species you want to talk about, each is just a branch that hasn’t gone extinct. The species that exist today are not the end-state (assuming the world doesn’t end); the “tree” continues to grow new branches, albeit very slowly. Evolution continues. But to observe it in real-time (not by looking at fossils and genetic data from fossils), one must observe hundreds or perhaps thousands of generations. That’s easy to do with some other species, but not ones where lifespans are as long as a typical primate’s.

Answer 2

And what do you suppose people have been turning up in Europe, Africa and Asia during the last hundred and twenty years? Old theatrical props?

Of course there are intermediate species between humans and apes, or the ape-like precursor of both humans and modern apes. Why not "homo erectus", one of the more recent types which has turned up in several places.

Do you want the entire skeletons of almost all the proto-humans and part anthropoid apes over the past two million years? But if one generation is missing you can complain because you don't have the transitional form and cling to your delusions.

Here is a fact for creationists. Most people in science and even out of it think you are deluded or lying. They are not interested in convincing you because they are too well aware you will not accept that evolution is an observed fact.

Here is another fact. The people that look for such remains do so out of their own interest, not to convince an ignoramus culture.

Answer 3

As pointed out there is none as we did not evolve from them, but an ancestor we had in common was more ape like than human. Things do NOT change overnight, so you would not suddenly get a half ape-like to half-human-like...there are many gradual changes that overtime add up and gradually change to a more human like form.
THere are around 20 species that have human like features.... some are not out ancestors ( eg Parathropus speices ( eg boseii) or even H.neaderthalensis, while others are considered to be, due to features. These features are varied. Bipedalism ( walking on 2 legs) is common to around 20 species, BUT NOT GREAT APES OR MONKEYS.
This was the feature that proably separated the ape-like and those that ended up human.....other features like teeth ( telling us about diet too), facial features and brain size are the main things we see changing over around 10 million years. Several species overlapped too ( eg early humans and neadterthals for one).
If you look at the fossils you can see the progression and change. We know there are other species out there not yet found...but remember that less that 1% of things could have the right conditions for fossilisation....so we are only seeing a tiny proportion of what existed and even then a lot of that gets dmaged beyond recognition ( or remain undiscovered)....

Answer 4

In taxonomy, actually, we ARE great apes.

But if you want to make a distinction, our last common ancestor with chimps was about five million years ago. Plenty of fossils of extinct hominids have been found. We don't know which ones are our ancestors, and which are also-ran dead-end extinct cousins. There were a lot of different species.

Oh... and Jim S is just plain wrong on one point. We do indeed have ape ancestors, from about 22 million years ago to about five million years ago. They're not any of the ape species extant today, but were apes nonetheless.

Answer 5

There are plenty of fossils. And, one of the new and best sources of "fossils" that back up the bone fossils is so-called junk DNA. That junk DNA is DNA left over from ancestors that is not used any more. It is better called fossil DNA.

Here's the scientific method: Look at bone fossils and see similarities between "us" and "them" and conclude that evolution occurred. But, continue to look for more evidence to either support or refute the theory. Find DNA that supports the theory and that continues to make the theory more concrete.

Here's the creationist method: This stuff is too complicated for me to understand. A designer musta done it.

Answer 6

It takes an incredible amount of luck for something that dies in the wild to become a fossil. If it just lies there, some other animal will probably come along, eat it and scatter the bones everywhere.
That is just the first of many things that have to go right.

Answer 7

You could try this web site. http://www.becominghuman.org

This is one of the best places to go. It is up to date and information here is ahead of the news sources.

Another good one is http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho

I have lots of links but these will do for a basic understanding of the subject you are inquiring about.

Boy I must be tired today my spelling and sentence structure is a mess.

Answer 8

There aren't any, because there's no conclusive proof to date that evolution is *fact*. It's a very strong theory with lots of supporting facts, but nothing that's CONCRETE....after all, Human DNA is also just a few chromosomes away from Pig DNA, you don't see anyone trying to form a link there do you?

Answer 9

It is not linear.

there are quite a few proto-humans
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/humans/humankind/index.html

Answer 10

God, creator of the Universe, created everything we know, we see, we are.....(: <3