Good points Ropo.
Where are the apes who are in the evolution phase to Neanderthals?
Or does evolution determine Neanderthals are extinct because they serve no purpose?
But why do we still have the same apes and chimps from millions of years ago? Why isnt there an example of a chimp ape/hybrid or ape/neanderthal in present day? It's odd that we dont have any evidence of evolution in process today.
First of all we need to understand some of the facts of the matter:
1. scientistic examination of this world is ongoing job, and so far we have found just a bits and pieces, this and that, not even nearly everything what there is to be found.
2. You have to understand time, millions of years, even billions of years which have passed by after these creatures dissapear. It isn't easy task find something as old as that.
3. in evolution, changes appear only when species gain something by it. For example, alligators and crocodiles has been just about same thousands of years and why? They are at the top on their food chain, so there isn't anything to gain. All they do is eat and breed, so why bother?
What comes to chimps etc. apes of course there is different evolution stages among them. Just google "primal evolution", there is lot to read. Point is that when species reach high end of it's food chain, evolution slows down because there is less reason to fine tuning. What comes to apes, in recent years they have found out that there is chimpanzee- tribes which have very strict hierarchy, lot like an army. There is soldiers and commanders, when they fight with another tribes, and they use sticks and rocks as a weapon. This and the fact that they have also found evidence of the religious behaviour from these apes, so tell me, is this another step of the evolution or what? Chimps are happy as a chimps, but will evolution rise them to walk with two legs? It may take another xx thousand years, but it will happen, because it is the route which they are going.