Do you agree that because of the many evolutionary steps taking place, there is no "missing link" in human evolution?
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Aquatic Eagle
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Maybe. It's a 50-50 shot. At some point, a female became the first human. But the chance of finding that specific being is impossible. That wouldn't make her a missing link, but the species she came from MIGHT be.
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Species don't turn into other species over night. A species is not an absolutely defined idea, it changes. If we define missing link as missing species, this would mean that we'd talk about a gap in the fossil record that is so big, that when we would add the earlier fossil to the later fossil with a time machine, they couldn't interbreed. I'm pretty sure that there is no missing link, because in the 7 million years of human evolution (separated from chimps) isn't enough space for more species than we've actually discovered. We have those early thingies (can't remember the name, something like paranthropus maybe) australopithecus, homo, and lots of subspecies. The problem with the people who claim that there are missing links is that they don't understand how evolution works. They want a fossil of every single small change, they would actually want every single ancestor fossilized, which is of course absurd.
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