The links were jokes.
However the challege was not.
Mitochondrial DNA exists
Mitochondrial Eve exists.
Her offspring exists in an unbroken chain of female decendants.
Mitochondrial Eve contemporaries exists.
Ardi exists.
Lucy exists.
Show me evolution of species.
There is a reason evolution is a theory and not a scientific law
from Yahoo news
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In 1994, scientists discovered the remains of a female hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago. The female was named "Ardi" (short for "Ardipithecus"). This past week, scientists announced that they now believe Ardi is actually a million years older than Lucy, that other famous human ancestor. What's the significance? Well, for one, this will certainly change the way experts study evolution. The AP explains that the long-held theory was that humans evolved from chimps. This new discovery "provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor." Although Ardi isn't that common ancestor, she is "the closest we have ever been able to come," according to Berkeley's Human Evolution Research Center. News of the find inspired big searches on "ardi discovery" and "ardi vs lucy."
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from here:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/hea...ry/121065.html
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.
Translation: The things we thought we knew about evoultion were completely wrong.
Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor - but each evolved and changed separately along the way.
but Ardi isn't that common ancestor, just another member of the genius
But Ardi has many traits that do not appear in modern-day African apes, leading to the conclusion that the apes evolved extensively since we shared that last common ancestor.
So that's what they conclude? (here's the best of all scientifc queston?) why? "Ardi has many traits that do not appear in modern-day African apes". Well clearly that can only mean that the apes evolved extensively."
How about you found an extinct hominid.