The Ape Man: Truth or Fiction?

1) No. Darwin beleived that many of the gaps reflected the limits of the geological record and would never be filled."I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries. Of this volume, only here and there a short chapter has been preserved; and of each page, only here and there a few lines"2) No.3) The previous stages are not "species" - except possibly "man" and even then you must accept the species Homo erectus and Homo habilis as being something other than man. If what you are asking for is a fine-grained transitional sequence (because you won't see a fossil transform before your eyes !) then we really have only a few examples, all of marine life. However we do hvae the so-called "archaic" Homo sapiens specimens which while being accepted as part of our species fit in between modern humans and Homo Erectus.

See Creationist Arguments: Anomalous FossilsCalaveras was probably a joke.

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Personal testimonies and geological evidence indicate that it is probably a modern Indian found in nearby limestone caves, and that it was planted as a practical joke by miners. Tests have shown it to be
recent, probably less than 1000 years old

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The Castenedolo remains were later burials

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An official report on these skeletons in 1899 noted that all the fossils from the deposit were impregnated with salt, except the human ones. This implies that they are from relatively recent burials. Collagen tests in 1965 and radiocarbon dating in 1969 confirmed this.

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