Quote Originally Posted by Gotch View Post
Glad you brought that up.

There is a 1.2 million year gap between Ardi and Lucy, both supposedly walked upright, but both had the skull capacity of an ape.

So....in 3.2 million years Lucy evolved into us but in 1.2 million years no evolution of brain capacity occurred?

Now, I realize that this a very simplified version, but it runs the same path as the arguement that there are bird fossils older than Archaeopteryx.
Ardi is nowhere near the full, evolved human.
It only showed progress towards the human, not the final stage of human evolution.