XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, talk.religion.misc   
   From: a202010@lycos.com-   
      
   Pro-Humanist FREELOVER wrote:   
      
   > Scientists find the 'missing link': A 47million-year-old   
   > lemur that could revolutionise how we see human evolution   
      
   > Excerpts:   
      
   > Her name is Ida, she is three feet tall and if scientists are right,   
   > she could be a common ancestor of apes and monkeys - and   
   > you.   
   <...>   
   > In the Guardian piece, based on an interview for Atlantic Pro-   
   > ductions, Sir David finished: 'Ida is a link between the apes,   
   > monkeys and us with the rest of the mammals and ultimately   
   > the whole animal kingdom. I think Darwin would have been   
   > thrilled.'   
   <...>   
   > But others are more cautious.   
      
   > Dr Henry Gee, a senior editor at the journal Nature, said the   
   > use of the term 'missing link' was misleading.   
      
   > And Dr Chris Beard, of America's Carnegie Museum of   
   > Natural History, said: 'I would be absolutely dumbfounded   
   > if it turns out to be a potential ancestor to humans.'   
      
      
   lemurs, apes, monkeys and humans have some similar features.  fine   
      
      
   common ancestry is not established from this "find"   
      
      
   i see no reason to make such a grand leap.   
      
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