Over at the NY Times' Opinionator blog, they provide a round up of commentary from science bloggers on Darwinius masillae aka Ida while also pointing to a revealing outing at the conservative blog Little Green Footballs on where Rush Limbaugh stands on evolution.
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Another super-cool day at PLoS (one of those days when I wish I was not telecommuting, but sharing in the excitement with the colleagues at the Mothership) - the publication of a very exciting article describing a rarely well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric primate in a lineage to which we all
As I wrote last week, there was a lot to like about the "going broad" communication strategy of the Darwinius masillae fossil discovery published at PLoS One.
But Ed Yong provides the proper perspective. The universe is not the same as it was before yesterday — I think Darwinius masillae may even have changed the course of several planets.