Once again scientist think they’ve found the “missing link”. Note the story headline says not “The” missing link, but “a” missing link. Read on to find out why it’s still missing. First.

“The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.

Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.

Experts who have seen the skeleton say it shares characteristics with Homo habilis, whose emergence 2.5 million years ago is seen as a key stage in the evolution of our species.
The new discovery could help to rewrite the history of human evolution by filling in crucial gaps in the scientific knowledge.

Most fossilised hominid remains are little more than scattered fragments of bone, so the discovery of an almost-complete skeleton will allow scientists to answer key questions about what our early ancestors looked like and when they began walking upright on two legs.

Palaeontologists and human evolutionary experts behind the discovery have remained silent about the exact details of what they have uncovered, but the scientific community is already abuzz with anticipation of the announcement of the find when it is made on Thursday.

The skeleton was found by Professor Lee Berger, from the University of the Witwatersrand, while exploring cave systems in the Sterkfontein region of South Africa, near Johannesburg, an area known as “the Cradle of Humanity”.

The find is deemed to be so significant that Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has visited the university to view the fossils and a major media campaign with television documentaries is planned.”

Mrs Ples, via Wiki:

“Australopithecus africanus was discovered by Raymond Dart while searching for a “missing link” in South Africa. The species was named after a small fossilized face and jawbone found in a cave in a Taung linestone quarry. Dart was convinced they had both human and apelike characteristics, and announced he had found his “missing link”.

Although Dart’s find received favorable press as the “Taung Child”, it was dismissed by most scientists as a young ape. Although the “Taung Child” was initially dated as 2-3 million years old, the geologist T.C. Partridge reported in the journal Nature that the cave site could not be more than 870,000 years old. “

Let’s get through with the definition first. By “missing” we mean a valid transitional form. That is a clear transitional form from ape to human. Fact: To date there hasn’t been one example of a transitional form between ape and human, just these “hypnosis” which when examined turn out to be nothing more than existing forms. There was Piltdown Man which turned out to be a hoax, Nebraska Man, which was built out of a pig’s tooth (note the tooth was evidence at the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial”).

This latest find should be easily debunked by simple DNA analysis but you won’t find these “scientist” clamoring for that. Instead they’ll go on their little road show with yet another fraud.

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