'Missing link' missing no more

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[Devilman88]

It looks like a monkey.

[afleitch]

It looks like a monkey.

In the right light, so do we...

[Lief 🗽]

Cool. Though, this is a scientific discovery, so it doesn't really belong in the Religion & Philosophy forum.

[Sbane]

It looks like a monkey.

Trust me, you are a monkey( no offense intended but we are great apes).

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This guy needs to shave and put on some clothes.

[Alcon]

This guy needs to shave and put on some clothes.

This is not the family photos thread, please take that elsewhere

[minionofmidas]

Missing link’ likely to stir debate
It shows characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans), said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum. However, she is not really an anthropoid either, he said.

*cough*

So it' not a "missing link" (but who's to claim such a link is really still missing?) between humans and other apes. It's not even a missing link between apes and other monkeys. It's a missing link between monkeys and certain other animals (there seems to be no *English* word for "prosimians" to mirror German "Halbaffen". )

It should not offend anti-evolution idiots, as it does not affect mankind's delusions of exceptionality. it does not belong in here.

[Jacobtm]

There isn't really a "missing link" according to anyone but people who don't buy into evolution. I feel like the only time it's used is in instances like:

"If the big bang happened, how come everything didn't explode? If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? And what about the missing link? It's all too much to think it was all an accident."