Creationist Fossil Challenge: Which of these are apes? Which are human?

The talkorigins site is great ... but I really wish they did not put the modern chimp skull at one end of the photo. To start with, a modern chimp skull is out of place with all the other photos in chronological order. It just fuels the misunderstanding by people who don't understand evolution, that humans evolved from chimps ... which is totally false.

But a bigger problem with this photo is that it makes the old mistake of showing stages, one next to the other, as if evolution was just one long progressive chain of one species changing into the next. That is one of the biggest mistakes in the explanation of evolution. It is one of the biggest misunderstandings about how evolution works.

Life is a *tree*, not a chain. Each of the skulls in this photo represent a species that was a *branch* on that tree ... not a 'stage'. It's photos like this that leads people to ask about "missing links", or "if X evolved into humans, why didn't *all* X's evolve into humans (or why are there still X's around)?"

I've seen so many people finally understand that one simple point ... that evolution is a constantly branching *tree*, not a chain ... and the lightbulb just lights up over their head and they go "Ah! Now I understand evolution!"

the other skulls are neither modern ape nor modern man. They are our precursors. Evolution doesn't state that man came from apes, it states that at some point long ago, we shared a common ancestor.

Skulls are more complex than they seem. They are separated into many different regions, come in different sizes w/ different sized brain cases, etc. These are some of the features that causes them to be classified as different species.

Based on where the skulls were found, researchers can determine an approximate age of the skulls. When you line them up in order of age, you can see a progression of features towards modern man.

maximum of them are not finished adequate for me (as a non-bone guy) to tell the version. i'm useful an expert could supply a greater powerful answer, yet for those the place there is adequate bone mass to tell: A=ape B=ape C=ape D=ape H=ape I=ape J=ape L is tough to tell, because of the fact i'm uncertain if the discollored sections are filled in or of those are actual area of the bone mass. M and N are the two human, and if I (as a non-bone guy) have been to wager, i could wager that N is an Asiatic and M is African.

Evolution...Yeah!!

maybe one is george w's, he could be the missing link