Thursday, October 22, 2009

Ida - Reported Not a Missing Link

The research is the first independent assessment of the claims made in a scientific paper and a television documentary earlier this year.

Dr Erik Seiffert says that Ida belonged to a group more closely linked to lemurs than to monkeys, apes or us.


''The suggestion that Ida [was]... specifically related to the higher primates, namely monkeys apes and humans, was actually a minority view from the start.


Not surprising...

(Perhaps the hairy sketches were closer to reality than we thought!!!) LOL

Full article here.

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