Missing Link no longer missing?

Socrates II — 5/20/2009 4:05:07 PM (archived)

"MISSING LINK" FOUND: New Fossil Links Humans, Lemurs?

May 19, 2009â€”Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.

In a new book, documentary, and promotional Web site, paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution (interactive guide to human evolution from National Geographic magazine).

Full article and more here:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html

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Missing Link no longer missing? - Socrates II - 5/20/2009 4:05:07 PM
- Odd. - TB - 5/20/2009 7:33:52 PM
  - There is no specific "missing link" anywhere, - ER - 5/20/2009 7:47:02 PM
    - Small evolutionary shifts make big impacts -- like developing night vision - Socrates II - 5/21/2009 2:15:30 PM
      - A thermodynamic limit on brain size - Socrates II - 5/27/2009 1:35:27 AM
- Fossils are REAL tangivle evidence. If there were such evidence of UFOs, I would believe in their existence. There isn't. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 5/20/2009 4:56:04 PM
  - All you have to believe David............ - Lindy - 5/20/2009 11:04:11 PM
  - All you have to believe David............ - Lindy - 5/20/2009 11:04:08 PM

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