The lemur/monkey, Ida, is a 47 million year old skeleton which indicates a common ancestor to both the lemur family and the monkey family.
It’s a neat find, but does it tells us anything new about human evolution? Yeah, but not in the right direction… we’re supposed to get closer to the Ape-Man, not further away! When I heard about a “missing link” being found on the on the evolutionary train I was expecting some kind of big-browed, human-like upright skeleton, that if you just put some skin and a prehistoric haircut on it you’d see an almost-us!
Alas no. Put skin and a prehistoric haircut on Ida and she’d look like a dinosaur kind of thing! That’s simply not enough to get me excited about a missing link.
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Looks like a lizard with a long tail, my great,great,……………great grandfather—I have doubts.