I say again, this whole deal is preposterous. “Ida” is a stinking monkey and the problem with human evolution is at the top of the chain and not at the bottom (with monkeys). The neanderthal has been ruled out as a plausible human ancestor by DNA studies and all other hominids were further removed from us THAN the neanderthal. That leaves nothing on this planet we could be descended FROM via any process resembling evolution. They’d need some new hominid, closer to us in both time and morphology THAN the neanderthal and the works and remains of such a thing would be all over the map and very easy to find if it had ever existed.
And let’s not forget that all the other upposedly ‘closely’ related evoltionary species were dated something significantly less than
47
MILLION
YEARS
AGO!!!