To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries th… - Henry Gee

It's evident that Darwin saw evolution not as progressive or improving, but as an activity that happens moment by moment. From this it is clear that evolution has no plan. It has neither memory nor foresight. No vestige of cosmic strivings from some remote beginning; no prospect of revelatory culmination in some transcendent end.

The intervals of time that separate the fossils are so huge that we cannot say anything definite about their possible connection through ancestry and descent.

There is more genetic variation in a few troupes of wild chimpanzees than in the entire human population. Lack of genetic variation is never good for species survival.