What are your thoughts on "Ida" the media darling touted as the missing link?
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Either way, Ida has no direct relevance to human evolution, which separated from chimpanzee evolution only about 6-7 million years ago. By choosing an attention-grabbing buzzword, however, the media also managed to confuse the timeline by more than 40 million years. It may be wrong, but it helped attract attention, and too many reporters are too ignorant of basic science to know the difference.
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M$As for Ida's effect on religion, I guess there might be one if the religion in question believed in a unique interpretation of mammalian evolution near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Otherwise, it seems pretty irrelevant. Religions that already deny evolution consider all fossil interpretations to be suspect anyway, and Ida will probably be no exception.
Not to mention, there have been numerous Missing Links over the years. There is not just one, and we have found many of them. It's almost like counting every number between 1 and 2. There are countless numbers in between, just as there are numerous missing links. But the discovery of more and more makes it all the more likely that we evolved from primates.
I hope I helped; have a great day!!!
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Matthew -
Great answer. Appreciated.
One thing...It seems like some of your answer was quoting this response from user @badaspie:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/science-and-mathematics/this-is-two-tiny-questions-did-who-declare-swine-flu-a-level-6-pandemic-also-do-you-think-the-discovery-of-ida-will-change-society-and-how
I have absolutely no problem with quoting a different Mahalo Answers thread. We have a lot of really knowledgeable community members and they can be a great resource.
But in the future, I'd suggest doing two things:
(1) Adding quote marks around quoted material, so people can see the difference between your own writing and an outside resource
(2) Providing a link back to where you found the information
(In truth, #2 is always a good idea whenever you're citing an outside source, rather than your own personal knowledge).
Thanks again for the great answer and for all of your active and helpful participation on Mahalo Answers. And congrats on almost getting your purple belt!
Actually, we ARE primates. The rest of the answer is flawless. Nice to meet you.
All in all, the discovery did fill in a small piece of the evolutionary puzzle. But we really haven't learned much of anything new from the discovery.
True haha. Nice to meet you too. Thanks for the compliment!
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Well put.