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Primate fossil called only a distant relative

By MALCOLM RITTER
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NEW YORK -Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it "the link" that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn't even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction.
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Remember Ida, the fossil discovery announced last May with its own book and TV documentary? A publicity blitz called it the link that would reveal the earliest evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts protested that Ida wasn\'t even a close relative. And now a new analysis supports their reaction.