Darwinius  masillae Darwinius masillaeCourtesy PLoS There you
were, thinking that lemurs were barely your relatives. It’s
okay, I understand. I mean, Prosimians? Really? Sure, we’re all
members of the primate family, but, like, two steps removed,
like those cousins in Kentucky your mom pretends don’t exist. Or
something. Prosimians are the non-human evolutionary line, how
primitive. Prosimians are like NASCAR, and Anthropoids, like
apes and humans, are like the DAR.  But, just like every
president has an embarrassing brother, so too are we related to
those furry simple primates. Now, we have proof! Scientists have
found a 47 million years old human ancestor, the link between
these early primates and human evolutionary lineage.  “Ida,” or
Darwinius masillae, was actually discovered in 1983 by a private
collector, although the fossil now belongs to the Natural
History Museum of Oslo. An international team of scientists has
been secretly conducting an in-depth study of Ida for the past
two years. Now her skeleto