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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.
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Well yeah, that's the basic idea. This isn't
new. This is why we have many varieties of similar animals that live in different locations around the world. They evolved from common ancestors and share many traits but are also clearly different.
There is no "missing link" no one individual that magically had many traits at once that didn't exist in his parents that suddenly made him more human-like than ape-like. This was a extremely slow and gradual process that took millions of years of random DNA being combined that occasionally resulted in some new trait (mutation) that either worked out for the better or didn't. When it worked out that individual lived and could pass on their DNA and that trait could be carried into the next generation, if it didn't work out that individual may likely have died and the trait might never have been passed along. Some traits don't really affect survivability, and are simply cosmetic changes on relatively small scales but are still visibly apparent (eye color, hair color, hanging ear lobes vs attached earlobes etc).
The very fact that humans have a sexual drive (mating instinct), and that they can pass on their traits to their offspring through their DNA should be proof enough that humans are simply another kind of animal living on this planet that evolved the same way as any other animal has. But we want to think we are better than common animals. We want to think there's something more to life than just living and dying. So we invent this imaginary world that exists beyond it, and encourage others to share in that belief. Why? So we'll have something to talk about with them that isn't as boring as the weather. It's the same concept as someone making an anime (any fictional work will do, but this is my example) that some people like and those people encourage their friends to see it hoping they'll like it. And like all works of fiction there are going to be people who don't like it, they like some other fictional work instead.. and some people just don't like fiction, or that particular medium it's presented on. It's all because humans are gifted with this big brain that's always hungry for stimulation. We have active imaginations, the real world alone sometimes isn't stimulating enough so we invent new ones in our heads, write them down in books, draw pictures of them, make them into movies or TV shows, and way back when the early concepts were religions. We're a very opinionated species and love to argue and debate over things, even things that aren't real. Could Batman beat Superman, which Aliens movie is the best, what is your Zombie Invasion plan, is there a god? All that it's the same thing.
How is any of this not obvious? How is any of that not common sense?