>Sometimes I think scientists fall for the same simplistic patterns of thinking that the men on the street fall for every day. From the article: >The term "mi

>Sometimes I think scientists fall for the same simplistic patterns of thinking that the men on the street fall for every day. From the article: >The term "missing link" drives anthropologists crazy when they hear anyone, especially journalists, use it to describe a fossil that is part-ape and part-human. >Indeed Dr Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature, once threatened to "rip my liver out and eat it with onions, borlotti beans and a glass of claret" if I did so when reporting a previous discovery. >There are many reasons for Henry's irritation, but chief among them is the recognition that there are many links in the chain of human evolution and most if not nearly all of them are still missing.