IDA's a fine fossil, but she's not the missing link.

In this article the author talks about the unveiling of a 47-million-year-old fossil primate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. According to the author, the fossil nicknamed Ida has raised the task of separating its scientific significance from the mass of public-relations hype surrounding it. He argues that Ida's features does not necessarily make it a close relative of the anthropoids. He believes that Ida is not a missing link in human evolution as the popular press claims.