re: #710 wii42

Questions to anyone:

How much is DNA analysis used in identifying this lemur as the ‘missing link’?

Wouldn’t DNA analysis be the (currently) most accurate means of establishing the grand evolutionary tree (vs, e.g. anatomical comparisons which seem to have, necessarily, a component of subjectivity)? How’s that (DNA analysis) working out in current evolutionary studies? How’s that work - the math behind comparing a couple of DNAs?

It’s a fossil, which means the organic material has been replaced with various minerals. Very doubtful that there’s any DNA in it.