The Link

Attenborough should be ashamed to put his name to this nonsense; it's a perfect example of why modern scientists and their methodologies cannot be trusted. People like Jørn Hurum are always looking to make their name by turning some ordinary fossil (or a mixture of different ones) into the 'missing link' and they'll pull any number of tricks to do so.

Anyone who's aware of the real truth behind finds such as the famous 'Lucy' will immediately recognise the similar and ex parte way the information is presented to you—whom they consider too dumb to figure out such an obvious ruse.

In this episode of Gold-Digging Pseudoscientists (as it should be called), they have found a fossil of a species of lemur in Germany—and yes Jørn it IS just a lemur—in an area known to produce fossils of—you guessed it—lemurs and they proceed (to pretend) to carry out an investigation that will ultimately lead them to their preordained conclusions.

All manner of chicanery is employed to this end. Some of it is obvious, such as the way the animated skeleton is displayed as a biped when it is clearly—and even confessed to be—a quadruped, and some you will have to read about later, such as the cherry-picked cladistic analysis. They even gave the fossil a human name and assigned it the genus Darwinius to help convince you... pathetic!

A reasonable documentary, but not as interesting as it could be. Boring at times, filling time with repetition - there are not enough facts to justify the whole length of the movie. A wasted opportunity to drive the point home to the creationists. Maybe it just fell under the PC appeasement of the superstitious policy of the BBC. David Attenborough usually leads on better research; should have found a better writer for this one.