Wednesday, May 20, 2009

That Didn't Take Long

From the New York Times: "Let's not go ape over Ida." "There is no missing link. Rather, there are an indefinite number of missing branches. To have a missing link, you need to visualise evolution as a chain. If there’s a gap in the chain, then you have a missing link. But evolution, at least at the scale of animals and plants, is mostly a tree."

Apparently claims of a Darwinian breakthrough are too soon. 47-million years too soon.