I am asked a lot why we don't see more fossils. So before you ask "it is incredible that we find as many as we do. Specimens require extremely particular circumstances to fossilise."
Another thing, this video isn't hugely accurate. There are many things wrong with it. From the implication that we evolved from chimps and the inclusion of neanderthals, to the apparent gaps.
Check out KennyTew2's "Human evolution and missing links (Meet the family)" http://youtube.com/watch?v=sZ2WoHFc7eE for a more up-to-date, accurate and well-made video.
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In all fairness, I should add that another discussion says chimps have a version of PGML/FOXD/CBWD genes in chromosome 9. If so, my agrument is not as strong.
My prediction is that when hominid DNA is analyzed sufficiently, it will be discovered that some intermediate species, probably australo-whatever, will have 3 strings of PGML/FOXD/CBWD . Two from humans, one from apes, proving they are hybrids.
In my discussion with majorvoltage on his video 'Human Evolution: The fossil record' he states Those genes long predate the human-chimp split. FOXD4 for example, a copy of which is on the fusion site, is conserved in bilateria. Even C. elegans has it
Only humans have the genes in 2 chromosomes. If hominds had 3 strings it would be 2 from human and one from ape.
If this was found in "australo-whatever", it could well be the case that our common ancestor with the "australo-whatever" had developed these genes before the split with us and then the "australo-whatever" had developed one more copy.
Yours isn't the only option, so this wouldn't constitute as proof of your position...if it was ever even found.
Again, I don't know much about PGML/FOXD/CBWD, but I'm sure if more copies were found in the intermediate than in humans, it could be attributed to them having developed these genes before the split with us and developing one more after.
If, however, they are found to have less copies than us, this also fits with them being an intermediate between us and our common ancestor with chimps.
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Can you give a more detailed explanation of why if it has 3 strings of PGML/FOXD/CBWD it must be a hybrid?
Those genes long predate the human-chimp split. FOXD4 for example, a copy of which is on the fusion site, is conserved in bilateria. Even C. elegans has it
Only humans have the genes in 2 chromosomes. If hominds had 3 strings it would be 2 from human and one from ape.
Yours isn't the only option, so this wouldn't constitute as proof of your position...if it was ever even found.
If, however, they are found to have less copies than us, this also fits with them being an intermediate between us and our common ancestor with chimps.
I don't see where else your argument has to go.
In 10 or 15 years when they find 3 rows, remember you heard it hear first.