So to get to this stage yould have to be able to survive as a human with half an eye, half a liver, stubby fingers.
Stubby fingers, perhaps. But your primate ancestors did not have "half a liver" or "half an eye".
Have you really never
seen a monkey?
An amoeba can survive but not half man half monkey.
Then all those fossils are what? Chopped liver?
On a David Attenborough programme on evolution they managed to give two living examples of the thing you'd expect to see. A bird with claws on it's wings and the Duck billed platypus.
And everything else that lives or has ever lived, but that's a large subject.
I can't read to much into deformed and reconstructed skulls personally. If a species goes extinct like the dodo it doesn't tend to leave ancestors.
My great-grandparents are all dead, and yet they have left descendants. Me, for example.
If a creature with shorter fingers, less conscious awareness and a different digestive system could survive what would lead to its eradication?
There's this thing called "natural selection", you should really learn about it.
In the example I gave of breathing in water I wasn't talking about individual evolution but pointing out that developing a "beneficial trait" doesn't make previous adaptions less beneficial ...
They are less beneficial
by comparison.
You may find a biology textbook useful at this point. We shouldn't have to spoonfeed you the basics.
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