Fossil 'not the missing link after all'

When Ida the fossil's discovery was announced, it was called "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

Fossil 'not the missing link after all'

When Ida the fossil's discovery was announced, it was called "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans.

But experts protested that Ida was not even a close relative - and now a new analysis supports their reaction.

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