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Chris Beard Fires Back on Ida

Apparently the backlash against the media storm that came in with Ida has begun. Chris Beard wrote in the New Scientist this week utterly dismissing Ida as anything but an adapoid. With a diagram.

Where Beard sees Darwinius
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17173-why-ida-fossil-is-not-the-missing-link.html
The main thrust:

What does Ida’s anatomy tell us about her place on the family tree of humans and other [...]