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There's the Creationist "missing link", and then there's the one used by sane people. A biological missing link would for example be if we didn't have Archaeopt

by quchen 13y ago

There's the Creationist "missing link", and then there's the one used by sane people. A biological missing link would for example be if we didn't have Archaeopteryx. It's true that this of course creates two new gaps in the evolutionary chain, but those aren't as annoying as the big gap before :-)

rorrr2 13y ago
"Missing link" is not a scientific term, there's no such thing in evolution. It's only really used by creationists now. Every fossil and organism is transitional, including us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil#Missing_links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil#Missing_lin...