Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Human Evolution?
May 19, 2009 on Sky News - Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.
The discovery of the 95%-complete ‘lemur monkey’ - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the “eighth wonder of the world”.
via Sky News Online
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http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/03/new_evidence_for_human_evoluti.php
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/humanorigins/
http://blogs.mit.edu/CS/blogs/eialba/archive/2006/05/08/57889.aspx
