Toumaï is not our Evolutionary Ancestor, Either
Articles about a critter that is considered a "fossil hominin", Sahelanthropus tchadensis , have been dropped over the transom here. It was presumptuously nicknamed Toumaï ("hope of life" in the Daza language) and some Darwinists think it is the oldest human ancestor. Sahelanthropus was originally found in Chad in 2001, but I wonder if this supposedly earthshaking discovery is not touted so much is because there was controversy from the beginning. The bones are fragmented, and there is even speculation that people from long ago had fiddled around with it. Sahelanthropus tchadensis , Wikimedia Commons / Bjoertvedt ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Perhaps researchers may have wanted to avoid another Lucy-type controversy , but that's just my speculation. After all, bones may not even belong to the same kind of creature. A recent study reveals that paleoanthropologists presupposed evolution and were thrilled by finding what they expected to see, but others did not gallop for