Human ancestors: are hiding? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, August 16, 2012, 01:36 (4484 days ago) @ David Turell

The gap between australopithicus and homo is fuzzy:-http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/08/a_big_bang_theo063141.html-"Of the various transitions that occurred during human evolution, the transition from Australopithecus to Homo was undoubtedly one of the most critical in its magnitude and consequences. As with many key evolutionary events, there is both good and bad news. First, the bad news is that many details of this transition are obscure because of the paucity of the fossil and archaeological records.111
As for the "good news," they still admit: "[A]lthough we lack many details about exactly how, when, and where the transition occurred from Australopithecus to Homo, we have sufficient data from before and after the transition to make some inferences about the overall nature of key changes that did occur."112-In other words, the fossil record provides ape-like australopithecines, and human-like Homo, but not fossils documenting a transition between them.-In the absence of fossil evidence, evolutionary claims about the transition to Homo are said to be mere "inferences" made by studying the non-transitional fossils we do have, and then assuming that a transition must have occurred somehow, sometime, and someplace."