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Ida: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution
by Stefanie at 2:21 pm EDT, May 19, 2009 |
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The experts concluded Ida was not simply a lemur but a 'lemur monkey', displaying a mixture of both groups, and therefore putting her at the very branch of the human line.
Two things immediately came to mind while reading the article: 1) Not that I don't appreciate the relevance of this discovery as it directly relates to humans, but was there really any legitimate question regarding evolution prior to this discovery? True, discoveries such as this continually provide more evidence of evolution, but I thought the case had already been made, generally speaking. 2) Holy @%#$! The creature from Eraserhead was real! |
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RE: Ida: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution
by Stefanie at 11:43 am EDT, May 20, 2009 |
By the way, National Geographic has a much better side-by-side photo/x-ray comparison. What's more, the newly described "missing link" was found in Germany's Messel Pit. Ida's European origins are intriguing, Richmond said, because they could suggest—contrary to common assumptions—that the continent was an important area for primate evolution.
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Ida: Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution
by Decius at 3:01 pm EDT, May 19, 2009 |
Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The experts concluded Ida was not simply a lemur but a 'lemur monkey', displaying a mixture of both groups, and therefore putting her at the very branch of the human line.
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