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Discovery discovers new ways to make the amazing boring

The Discovery Channel recently took time off from hawking paranormal junk to present a special on the latest human-evolution discovery, Ardi . I watched it and fell asleep before the first hour was over. Then, for a few minutes today, I Googled "Ardi" and "hominid" and had my basic questions answered. One of which was, "What about the missing link? Is it a myth?" Answer: yes. At least, the ape/human missing link science always expected to find. Seems human features independently emerged long before we thought, and in a branch separate from monkeys. (As if I had much of [...]