Indeed. The presence of australopithocine, a fully bipedal primate with the brain the size of a chimp, is itself a powerful testament to the evolution of primates and the change from knuckle walking to bipedalism. It really doesn’t matter one bit if Lucy is a human ancestor or the start of a branch that died out for the evidence of Australopithocine to show that apes were changing and evolving at a time when there were no human beings.
BINGO!
Excuse me for intervening in this debate, but, I can assure you that the above noted Democrats are alive and well in my neck of the woods!
If we evolved from apes why are apes still here? If we did and apes are still here where are the human-ape transition creatures?