While I’m memeing, here’s one I missed while not blogging. Has the Missing Link been found? Here’s a recent one from the Telegraph:
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Scientists believe the almost-complete fossilised skeleton belonged to a previously-unknown type of early human ancestor that may have been a intermediate stage as ape-men evolved into the first species of advanced humans, Homo habilis.
Drivel. The idea there is a missing link between humans and apes comes from the religiously inspired idea that there is a distinction between apes and humans. There isn’t a distinction. We’re apes. Get over it.
David Barash says, ‘Modern man though well behaved, is nothing more than a monkey shaved.’
I have no idea who David Barash is, but he’s about right, IMHO.