The Primate Fossil Ida - Science Review

[bheadh]

This show proves that through greed ("book deals" etc) science will lie at times to promote it's agenda. Let us not ever forget the "piltdown man"... that lie lasted over 40 years.

[sfspop]

Looks like a well-preserved, glorified squirrel monkey fossil to me.

[jojojosmart]

Show me the money, says the man who found this fossil.

[bodyrocks1on1]

The only problem was a few irresponsible journalists who printed misleading information to stir up controversy and make a buck! The real official scientific reports were not inaccurate. To find out more about Ida, watch AronRa's videos about it! Ida know & Ida done better!

[amaxamon]

The reason for the hoopla was that Ida *wasn't* revealed in the scientific community, which is the problem. Tim White speaks some real common sense here.

[AA32m7io1]

"Primate fossil 'NOT an ancestor'" (BBC, October, 21 2009)

"Dr Erik Seiffert says that Ida belonged to a group more closely linked to lemurs than to monkeys, apes or us... [Dr Seiffert continues] "They are more closely related to lemurs and lorises than they are to tarsirs or monkeys, apes and humans. This study would effectively REMOVE Ida from our ancestry."

Also see: "Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates" (Nature)

[selearemus]

@AA32m7io1 watch david attenborough the missing link

[fescolfaro]

scientists are envious creatures, that is...

most are probably just pissed to not have -bought- a 47 million years old fossil for studying...

it always goes like this, one scientist claims he discovered something, and all the others bite their lips saying its bullshit but secretly think "why didn't i think this before"...

goes a long way on darwins ballpark anyway, when you think creationists date the earth about 10.000 years old...

[anmarupappa]

I watched the "documentary" the other day and that actually made me sick to the stomach and pretty frustrated as well - missing link my fluffy behind... It is a well preserved primate fossile, nothing more - nothing revolutionary here, move on.

[rv186rs]

the thing with Ida is that she is the link connecting primates and other mammals together.

Its not really such a big deal sure, but it is A missing link, and among the few we where sitll missing.

[Desertphile]

"....may have gone too far in promoting Ida as an early human ancestor."

Not just "gone too far," but well past respectability and into Bullshit Land. The odds of "Ida" being on the same ancestral line as humans is negligable.