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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Thanks for posting the article.


“Ida’s significance was described in no uncertain terms as the missing link between us humans and our primate kin.”


Well, there’s something you don’t see every day!


5 posted on 07/21/2009 8:53:10 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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...”Critics concur that Ida is an adapiform, but they dispute the alleged ties to anthropoids. Robert Martin of the Field Museum in Chicago charges that some of the traits used to align Ida with the anthropoids do not in fact support such a relationship. Fusion of the lower jaw, for instance, is not present in the earliest unequivocal anthropoids, suggesting that it was not an ancestral feature of this group.

Moreover, the trait has arisen independently in several lineages of mammals—including some lemurs—through convergent evolution. Martin further notes that Ida also lacks a defining feature of the anthropoids: a bony wall at the back of the eye socket.

“I am utterly convinced that Darwinius has nothing whatsoever to do with the origin of higher primates,” he declares.

They got their 15 minutes of fame...before being shot down.


13 posted on 07/21/2009 9:25:11 PM PDT by Amadeo
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