Photo: Darwinius marsillae, Franzen et al. An Overhyped FossilThe massive media campaign lead to headlines in the world press that were not content with just calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world” (Randerson 2009). Two new studies of the fossil published within a year by Seiffert et al. (2009) and Williams et al. The general opinion today is that Darwinius is not a missing link at all, not even a real monkey, but just another representative of a relatively insignificant early side-branch of primates.

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2022 20:22 UTC