Missing link found

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I guess they really found the Missing Link (or a member of that family anyhow). It's super-top news, just open Google today and click the front page "google" graphic (which is looking decidedly paleontological (I'm making this word up, I think)).

I had to do a double-take to make sure it wasn't April 1st.

It sounds like a ligitimate word to me. Adjective from paleontology.

A "missing link" between simians and lemurs isn't quite as extraordinary as the term "missing link" bills it to be. An significant element in primate evolution, but nothing that is going to alter the world view of anyone unfamiliar with the subject.

I'm going to stay with Creationism.


Its just another species that happens to have the look of a human monkey. But we aren't related at all.

Keep telling yourself that.

Also the term missing link is a little misleading, I think the term used would be transitional fossel. But that probably doesn't have the same ring to it as far as the newpapers are concerned. And what a shame the guy who found it kept it to himself for twenty years, did he think it would increase in value? Or did he just get a little kick out of having something nobody else did?

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First, we are related. There is this thing that is called DNA that puts us uncomfortably close to certain primates for you people. Secondly, you are probably the only one left in the right-wing bible-thumping world that have not move on to ID.

No amount of posting your opinions on the net is going to prove that you are right. Ever. Reality is on OUR side.

Religious extremism go that way -> DSM-V.

Save that for PPR there tiger.

Here is a link to the national geographic page.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... found.html

This is amazing!

I should hope so, as lemurs are primates.

LOL. someone needs to fact check a little better over at Nat Geo...

Lots of these fossils had been found before, but none were a complete skeleton, I think. (I haven't checked this.)

In any case, the concept of a missing link isn't really very interesting to anyone who knows much about it. From related species that have been found, we can quite accurately guess what the ancestor species looked like.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8066931.stm

Can I promote my new books, All Orangutans have Asperger's and All Chimps have ADHD.

As long as it was born after Oct 4004 BC, both sides are satisfied...

[quote="twoshots"]A "missing link" between simians and lemurs isn't quite as extraordinary as the term "missing link" bills it to be.quote]

From someone that studies in the anthropology field, this is quite interesting, but nevertheless, you have to remain slightly skeptic, there's been so much "miraculous finds" in the discipline that stepping back a bit usually gives the best results. ^^; In any event, maybe i'll discuss this with my teachers next session :> .