Re: What you watching right now!
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link
A one-off David Attenborough programme arrives shrouded in secrecy. It appears to revolve around the discovery of well-preserved fossilised remains in Germany that provide a key link between smaller mammals and higher apes in the evolutionary story. Beyond that, further detail was being zealously withheld until after RT had gone to press. But if information is thin on the ground, hype is not. Brief press notes trumpet this as what could be "one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 21st century". Early days to be making that sort of claim, you might think, but if the new find helps settle the debate about exactly what kind of primates were humankind's earliest ancestors, it could be big. And it will doubtless involve those most engaging characters, lemurs, even if the vital feature of the 40-million-or-so-year-old remains turns out to be precisely that they are not of a lemur but of something slightly and significantly different. Either way, we can be pretty sure Sir David will not disappoint.
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Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link
A one-off David Attenborough programme arrives shrouded in secrecy. It appears to revolve around the discovery of well-preserved fossilised remains in Germany that provide a key link between smaller mammals and higher apes in the evolutionary story. Beyond that, further detail was being zealously withheld until after RT had gone to press. But if information is thin on the ground, hype is not. Brief press notes trumpet this as what could be "one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 21st century". Early days to be making that sort of claim, you might think, but if the new find helps settle the debate about exactly what kind of primates were humankind's earliest ancestors, it could be big. And it will doubtless involve those most engaging characters, lemurs, even if the vital feature of the 40-million-or-so-year-old remains turns out to be precisely that they are not of a lemur but of something slightly and significantly different. Either way, we can be pretty sure Sir David will not disappoint.
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