“So, am I right that no direct ancestor for homo-sapiens has ever been discovered? All that were conjectured as that immediate ancestor have been proven not to be?”
I think you would be, however the answer would be, “We just don’t know yet.”
I think that’s my biggest problem with the evolutionists - they keep saying, “It’s just GOT to be right, but we just can’t prove it yet.” At the same time, they denigrate ID’ers.
It’s just as bad in cosmology.
Hawking even had to come up with some sort of yo-yo theory to explain the expanding universe, since he is a hardcore materialist.