Kenny and I were talking just yesterday about how apes evolved into humans, and I told him that paleoanthropologists are constantly on the look-out for the bones of the "missing link."

In jest, I told him, "So, if you want to insult your classmates, your fellow five-year-olds, just call them 'the missing link!'" OK, not funny. But then this story turned up:

Could Ethiopian skull be missing link? and we had another opportunity to talk about evolution again today.

And I told him that "out of africa" blows the "cradle of civilization" out of the water. To get nit-picky about semantics in effect says Africans are uncivilized -- it won't wash.

I learned "cradle of civilization" in school, funny how things change.