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by wickedwillie on March 9th, 2005

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What exactly is "the missing link" supposed to be?

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  • by Jillifish on March 10th, 2005

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    During this day in age, "the missing link" could be anything. But given your recent trend in questions, I am assuming you are refering to "the missing link" from human evolution. This missing link is/are examples of different evolutionary stages that bridge humans and their potential simian predecessors. And by examples, I mean fossil skeletons. We have already been able to unearth some potential previous relatives, but not very many.

    "The time of the split between humans and living apes used to be thought to have occurred 15 to 20 million years ago, or even up to 30 or 40 million years ago. Some apes occurring within that time period, such as Ramapithecus, used to be considered as hominids, and possible ancestors of humans. Later fossil finds indicated that Ramapithecus was more closely related to the orang-utan, and new biochemical evidence indicated that the last common ancestor of hominids and apes occurred between 5 and 10 million years ago, and probably in the lower end of that range (Lewin 1987). Ramapithecus therefore is no longer considered a hominid."
    (source: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/species.html)

    Fossils from during this split are "the missing link" of human evolution. Alternatively there is rumor of something called the missing link of webpages, so if you want to learn more about good design practices with cascading style sheet please visit the following:
    http://www.uoguelph.ca/~stuartr/articles/missinglink.shtml

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    • Uh, Hello... this is the "human evolution" section of Answerbag, in case there's any doubt....

      jwmbiz

      by jwmbiz on August 2nd, 2005

    • Good answer, jwmbiz, she clearly answers the question,lighten up,you're more fanatical than any religious group on answerbag.

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on August 2nd, 2005

    • Look at the pot calling the kettle black, DAVID.

      matermotley

      by matermotley on November 28th, 2005

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