There Is No Missing Link

'Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor -- and it is full of surprises. Although the creature, named Ardipithecus ramidus, had a brain and body the size of a chimpanzee, it did not knuckle-walk or swing through the trees like an ape. Instead, "Ardi" walked upright, with a big, stiff foot and short, wide pelvis, researchers report in Science. "We thought Lucy was the find of the century," says paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill of Yale University, referring to the famous 3.2-million-year-old skeleton that revolutionized thinking about human origins. "But in retrospect, it was not."'

This is a major scientific discovery. The inference -- that for much farther back into the ancient past, humans and apes have been separate and distinct species -- rules out the nmotion of there being a 'missing link' in the fossil record, a link that has been much lampooned by creationists and their fellow morons.