Human ancestor disproves "Missing Link"

[Frank]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...missing-link-chimps-ardipithecus-ramidus.html

Very interesting article about the last 15 years of research on these fossils.

 

[bhamv3]

Fascinating indeed. I love science.

 

[drawn_inward]

Nice. I'll have to check out that issue of Science. Those are some brittle bones!

 

[Kitty Sinatra]

"It shows that the last common ancestor with chimps didn't look like a chimp, or a human, or some funny thing in between."

so it's a common ancestor of humans and apes, but not human or ape . . . isn't that exactly what the missing link is supposed to be?

Or has the common theory actually been that modern primates haven't been evolving all this time that humans have been? That seems weird.