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The term "missing link" was influenced by the 18th-century Enlightenment thinkers such as Alexander Pope and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who thought of humans as links in the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchical structure of all matter and life.
Jan 20, 2019 · Early humans were still swinging from trees two million years ago, scientists have said, after confirming a set of contentious fossils represents a “missing link” in humanity’s family tree.
missing link, hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. In the latter half of the 19th century, a common misinterpretation of Charles Darwin’s work was that humans were lineally descended from existing species of apes.
Apr 12, 2010 · The "missing link" is a term often thrown around by the media to describe fossils that are believed to bridge the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans....
When Darwin published Origin of Species, one thing was missing from his argument: a “missing link.”. Though the term never once appears in the book, Darwin knew that his claims could benefit ...
May 15, 2012 · In his new book, Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins, the author John Reader gives a detailed account of the often exciting stories behind the discoveries of some of the most important human fossils considered missing links at the time of their discovery, ranging from the first Neandertal specimen discovered in the 1850s to the recently ...
Abstract. ch attention and caused so much public debate as the question of human ori-gins. In the discussions following the discovery of hominin fossils in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of the missing link between humans and animals turn.
