Meet Ida, the small missing link found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins. In this documentary paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution.
The fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs. This is the first link to all humans, Hurum, of the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway, said in a statement. Ida represents the closest thing w...
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