Google’s Missing Link Fossil Logo
May 20, 2009 at 9:56am ET by Barry Schwartz
Yesterday, scientists found what they are calling the “missing link” in evolution. Scientists found the “Darwinius masillae,” which is known as the missing link between humans and apes. You can read about the discovery in this article.
Google posted a logo for the special discover and linked the logo to a search for missing link found in the search results.
Here is a look at the logo:
Google is known for loving science, so it is not surprising Google would put a logo up for such an event.
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Thanks very much, I hadn’t seen this story yet! However, I wish Google & so many journalists weren’t apparently overhyping it as a “missing link”.
First of all, the “missing link” bit is a bit of PR hyperbole. If I may quote PZ Myers, as quoted in The Opinionator blog’s “Let’s Not Go Ape Over Ida” at NYTimes.com:
”The whole “missing link” category is a bit of journalistic trumpery: almost every fossil could be called a link, and it feeds the simplistic notion that there could be a single definitive bridge between ancient and modern species. There isn’t: there is the slow shift of whole populations which can branch and diverge.”
Second of all, no amount of filling in of the historical record will please or convince the most ardent of creationists, so why overhype something if it’s not necessary? It just ultimately cheapens the true value of scientific knowledge when people see it promoted like any other for-profit PR event.