Richard Dawkins, in his book, stated that ‘Interestingly, there are as yet no fossils linking that ancestor…?

….(which was neither chimpanzee nor human) to modern chimpanzees.Perhaps this is because chimpanzees live in forests, which don’t provide good fossilizing conditions. If anything it is chimpanzees, not humans, who today have a right to complain of missing links! (The greatest show on earth ebook, page 67)

As for humans vs chimps, humans and proto-humans tended to live in dryer grasslands, where fossilization happens relatively well. That is linked to our bipedal gait, since walking is an efficient way of locomotion in this environment.

Chimps on the other hand lived in dense forests in the trees. These environments are not good for fossilization.

You have an interesting point that we do have some fossils from forested areas. So which is it: fossils can or cannot form in forests? I don’t know the answer to that exactly. But not all forests are the same. Some, like the Amazon, are highly acidic, which can damage bones and other hard tissues before they can fossilize.

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