Cryptids of Australia pt:1 & pt:2

[BIAD]

Britannica.com states:

 'Some 180 million years ago, in the Jurassic Period, the western half of Gondwana (Africa and South America) separated
from the eastern half (Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica).'

Britannica.com also states:

'Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates.
Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very
likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.

We are now the only living members of what many zoologists refer to as the human tribe, Hominini, but there is abundant fossil
evidence to indicate that we were preceded for millions of years by other hominins, such as Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and
other species of Homo, and that our species also lived for a time contemporaneously with at least one other member of our genus,
H. neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals)....'

So if the Yowie exists, it had to have 'left Africa' before the Australia we know today had split from Gondwana -a piece of Pangaea.
This is a puzzle!

[Bally002]

Britannica.com states:

 'Some 180 million years ago, in the Jurassic Period, the western half of Gondwana (Africa and South America) separated
from the eastern half (Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica).'

Britannica.com also states:

'Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates.
Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very
likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago.

We are now the only living members of what many zoologists refer to as the human tribe, Hominini, but there is abundant fossil
evidence to indicate that we were preceded for millions of years by other hominins, such as Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and
other species of Homo, and that our species also lived for a time contemporaneously with at least one other member of our genus,
H. neanderthalensis (the Neanderthals)....'

So if the Yowie exists, it had to have 'left Africa' before the Australia we know today had split from Gondwana -a piece of Pangaea.
This is a puzzle!

Before I release upon you "That one big monkey man" story from central Australia.  

While the continents split up I've read that ice ages and sea levels over 10's of 1000's of years enabled movement (land bridges) through Indonesia New Guinea to Cape York south to Tasmania until eventually the continent was cut off.  The only land based predators later were man of course, dingoes, predatory birds, reptiles etc so the larger mammals/marsupials survived.  Not withstanding there have recently been some monster dinosaur fossil discoveries in remote areas.

I would appreciate your thoughts on this.  

Yowies have been sighted across Australia and even in Tasmania but scarce evidence of such apart mostly from stories like "That one big monkey man".

Kind regards,

Bally :)

[BIAD]

Yowies have been sighted across Australia and even in Tasmania but scarce evidence of such apart mostly
from stories like "That one big monkey man".
Kind regards,

Bally :)

I believe in the Yowie.

Including being aware of the hundreds of variables that are involved when a landmass breaks away from its parent continent
and the many sub-species of hominid, what I was really getting at were the inconsistencies of the timing we're accepting that
the first hominid species began to leave Africa.

Family-Hominidae: Great apes: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—the hominids.
20–15 million years ago.
Subfamily-Homininae: Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas (the African apes).
14–12 million years ago.
Tribe-Hominini: Includes both Homo, Pan (chimpanzees), but not Gorilla.
10–8 million years ago.
Subtribe-Hominina: Genus Homo and close human relatives and ancestors after splitting from Pan—the hominins.
8–4 million years ago.
(Genus): Ardipithecus s.l.
6-4 million years ago.
(Genus): Australopithecus.
3 million years ago.
Genus: Homo (H. habilis) Humans.
2.5 million years ago.
(Species): H. erectus s.l.
(Species): H. heidelbergensis s.l.
Species: Homo sapiens s.s. Anatomically modern humans.
0.8–0.3 million years ago.

We have a small hair-losing upright ape moving north and eastwards and as Darwin's theory presumably worked its magic,
the Homo sapiens became the sole and dominant species. Yet, the Yowie and Sasquatch are reported to be generally
larger than today's -and certainly our ancestors, and also retaining the overt body-hair.

'That one big monkey man' is a correct description, a large hairy upright ape from a couple of million years ago, that has the
ability to evade Homo sapiens with the use of terrain, guile and a ocean-going gift to reach places that had broken away from
his birth-place millions of years before he supposedly existed!

For Sasquatch, he could use the Bering Strait ice-bridge as his get-out clause, but the Yowie?

"A new study from ANU indicates the most likely route the ancestors of Aboriginal people took to enter Australia for the first time tens
of thousands of years ago. Co-lead researcher Shimona Kealy said these people probably travelled through Indonesia's northern
islands, into New Guinea and then Australia, which were part of a single continent between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, when sea
levels were 25-50 metres below the current level...."

"..."The suggested route through Timor is also considered less likely given comprehensive archaeological evidence indicates the
earliest human settlements in Timor are much younger than those found in Madjedbebe in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory,"
said Professor O'Connor, a researcher at the School of Culture, History and Language and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre
of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage at ANU."

Source:

If we exclude the idea that the Yowie owned a boat, all we're left with is a few uncomfortable options.
The evidence of bipedal hominid movement took place after the break-up of what we know now as continents.
Any movement across water took place with the use of a vessel.
The occupants of these vessels were similar in appearance to today's humans.
The Yowie was already on the continent of Australia before modern man arrived via Timor.
Every eye-witness to a Yowie encounter was either mistaken or creating a hoax and are behaving like those
in North America, another place that doesn't have indigenous apes. 
Finally, maybe we don't know enough!