Earlier hominids did not count in Scripture's rendition
because it focused on Semites, which allows for Indians in America, and Chinese in China.
I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and
early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works
because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).