Wednesday, October 21, 2009

People Will Believe Anything

Remember the heralding of the found “missing link,” back in May 2009, with teevee specials, books and what not, which I said was all marketing, and which many people so naively embraced with evolutionary fervor, much like politicians’ promises?  Well, the “missing link” is not even a link.

Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it “the link” that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

Experts protested that Ida wasn’t even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction.

In fact, Ida is as far removed from the monkey-ape-human ancestry as a primate could be, says Erik Seiffert of Stony Brook University in New York.

‘Missing link’ primate isn’t a link after all

Posted by John Venlet on 10/21 at 02:54 PM
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