That is not what I said, Penny. I merely questioned the certainty that any incomplete remains could be stated to be 'an ancestor of man,' in the light of one known deliberate fraud cobbled up out of bits of several species, and I meant particularly if those remains are found without corroborating evidence, such as a proto-banjo!

If it WAS stated. I didn't read the article. Sorry if I 'rattled your perch.'

I once found a fossil of what may have been a horse-shoe crab. I've met people whose skull looked very much like that. Maybe that was an ancestor, too. :-)