Oldest "Human" Skeleton Found --Disproves "Missing Link

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Originally Posted by Alex

Just for clarification, it doesn't disprove the "missing link." Disproving the missing link idea in general would be disproving that human and other apes share a common ancestor. It disproves a theory that the last common ancestor between human and other apes would be chimpanzee-like.

And that's if this group's interpretation of the skeleton is correct (and this skeleton is even in our evolutionary path).


But no matter what it is an amazingly cool find.

I just lifted the title from National Geographic, so they're wrong.