Posted on 10/22/2009 6:04:42 AM PDT by IronKros
The exceptionally well-preserved fossil primate known as "Ida" is not a missing link as some have claimed, according to an analysis in the journal Nature.
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.
His team's conclusions come from an analysis of another fossil primate.
The newly described animal - known as Afradapis longicristatus - lived some 37 million years ago in northern Egypt, during the Eocene epoch. And the researchers say it was closely related to Ida.
This study would effectively remove Ida from our ancestry. Erik Seiffert, Stony Brook University
Ida lived some 47 million years ago and was given the scientific name Darwinius masillae.
Dr Seiffert and his colleagues say that both Afradapis and Darwinius were in a sister group to the so-called "higher primates", which includes humans.
This extinct sister group, they say, was more closely related to lemurs and lorises.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Another evolutionary dead end.
*Waiting breathlessly for the headlines in major mainstream media to announce this like they did the opposite conclusion.*
To bad, it would have been neat to be neighbors with “The Cat” from Red Dwarf.
Ping!
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· 10/01/2009 8:12:17 AM PDT · · Posted by sodpoodle · · 30 replies · · 2,472+ views · · Discovery Channel · · October 1, 2009 · · Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News · |
The world's oldest and most complete skeleton of a potential human ancestor -- named "Ardi," short for Ardipithecus ramidus -- has been unveiled by an international team of 47 researchers. Their unprecedented, 17-year investigation of Ardi is detailed in a special issue of the journal Science. |
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· 10/01/2009 9:29:53 AM PDT · · Posted by NormsRevenge · · 13 replies · · 1,207+ views · · AP on Yahoo · · 10/1/09 · · Randolph E. Schmid -- ap · |
WASHINGTON -- The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor. This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University. Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor -- but each... |
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· 10/01/2009 12:18:15 PM PDT · · Posted by Pharmboy · · 85 replies · · 1,711+ views · · Canada.com · · October 1, 2009 · · Ken Meaney · |
Probable life appearance in anterior view of Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), ARA-VP 6/500.Photograph by: Handout, Illustrations 2009, J.H. Matternes An international team of scientists unveiled Thursday the results of 15 years of study of one of the oldest known human ancestors, Ardipithecus ramidus, which they say overturns much of what we know about human evolution. And surprisingly, it's also rewriting the story of our relation to gorillas and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and their development as well. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, one of the authors involved in the research and the man who discovered the first pieces of the most complete... |
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· 10/01/2009 3:57:48 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 26 replies · · 837+ views · · miamiherald · · 10.01.09 · · ROBERT S. BOYD · |
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· 10/03/2009 12:34:59 PM PDT · · Posted by JoeProBono · · 46 replies · · 1,718+ views · · nationalgeographic · · October 1, 2009 · · Jamie Shreeve · |
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· 10/03/2009 4:08:45 PM PDT · · Posted by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass · · 63 replies · · 1,361+ views · · Los Angeles Times · · October 2, 2009 · · Thomas H. Maugh · |
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· 10/22/2009 7:10:31 AM PDT · · Posted by MGBGUN · · 20 replies · · 293+ views · · AP · · Wed Oct 21 · · MALCOLM RITTER · |
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. |
So Ida's not the "missing link": questions and answers with Erik SeiffertRemember the "fossil that will change everything"? When Darwinius masillae, nicknamed Ida, was revealed to the world back in May, an avalanche of PR hype claimed it as a "missing link" in human evolution. This lemur-like creature, the promotional campaign had it, was an ancestor of us all.
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Come on!
Time to get serious ;)
OBAMA IS THE MISSING LINK!
Oh darn, another origin of man scientific theory debunked.
I wouldn’t so much say that an origin of man theory was debunked as say the scientific community correctly spoke out against an incorrect categorization.
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