News to Note, October 24, 2009 (another would-be "Icon of Evolution" bites the dust)
(For all these stories and more, click on the excerpt link below) 1. BBC News: Primate Fossil Not an Ancestor Remember Ida, the missing link that wasnt? In a Nature letter, scientists attack the lofty claims that surrounded the announcement of the fossil primate. 2. Did the Baby Mammoth, Lyuba, Suffocate in a Dust Storm? In a special guest news analysis, creationist (and mammoth expert) Michael Oard considers the well-preserved mammoth Lyuba (whom we first discussed in A Mammoth Discovery). The occasion? Lyubas worldwide debut. 3. National Geographic News: Chimps Display Humanlike Good Will Chimps, especially mothers and their offspring,...
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