I got home late, and have just tuned in to The Link, the grossly overyhyped History Channel documentary on Darwinius masillae. I haven't seen much of it so far, but there is good and bad. The good: lots of long closeups of the fossil itself. The bad: it's kind of slow and talky. Fortunately, I haven't seen any grand pronouncements that it's going to change the universe, although the title is a bit annoying.
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