Potential falsifications of the theory of evolution

Really? Where? When?

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"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons, ca. 830 AD

But we most certainly don't "still have" living examples of all the primates - only a fraction of all great apes that are known from fossils are still around. You've been shown pictures of skulls of a selection of the extinct ones about fifty times on this forum, dawn.

Barbara, the last common ancestor is some critter sort of like Orrorin tugenensis. That's a question for a different thread, like one over at EvC Forum: Human Origins and Evolution

Passenger pigeons and sea mink are both a helluva lot more recent than Neanderthalers. Does it seem odd that none of them survive today? I'm betting that the same species is responsible for the extinctions of all three.

So if you are only able to trace some line of your ancestry back to a great-grandfather, it means that his mom didn't exist? That great-grandpa was created instead of born?Barack Obama (and John McCain) and I share a common ancestor that came to Massachusetts in 1630, I think it was. But on my maternal grandmother's side, there's a "dead end" back in the middle 1800's. Does that mean I don't exist?

Yes, you are mistaken. A tabloid newspaper published a drawing of a hominid-looking critter after H. F. Osborn published the tentative identification of a tooth from Nebraska as belonging to a primate. Osborn called the illustration "a figment of the imagination of no scientific value, and undoubtedly inaccurate".And that all before my mother was born.