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Missing Link found!!!

I thought the whole "missing link" thing consisted of a likely set of steps, not just one species.
 
Damn, and here I thought you found this:

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I have found a missing bolt last week. Not only Nature have rejected my paper, but no one appeared to my press conference.

Why are link valued more then nuts and bolts? Life just isn't fair.
 
The missing link is the one my dog ate Saturday as I was preparing breakfast for the family.
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GreNME said:
I thought the whole "missing link" thing consisted of a likely set of steps, not just one species.
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It does. Use of the phrase "missing link" should be absolutely forbidden unless one is talking about fence or chain repair.
 
I loved this quote from the article -

Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle
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Yeah. Up until now, the scientific community has been saying, "I don't know. I'm really not sure. If only we could find the elusive lemur-monkey, that would really clinch the case."

Still, it's a cool fossil, and the surrounding publicity might help sway a few more folks to the belief that maybe the entire scientific establishment might be right after all. It's just weird to read a statement that, somehow, evolution needed "confirmation".
 
Meadmaker said:
I loved this quote from the article -



Yeah. Up until now, the scientific community has been saying, "I don't know. I'm really not sure. If only we could find the elusive lemur-monkey, that would really clinch the case."

Still, it's a cool fossil, and the surrounding publicity might help sway a few more folks to the belief knowledge that maybe the entire scientific establishment might be right after all. It's just weird to read a statement that, somehow, evolution needed "confirmation".
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fixxed that for you :D
 
Every time someone find a new species, there is two more missing links : what came before and what came after.

(Something I read on this very forum that I quote from memory.)

THE missing link does not mean anything, but it makes better headlines.
 
Last night Craig Fergerson passed the observation that the age of Ida was confirmed by Larry King, who had interviewed her while she was still alive for his show :)
 
GreNME said:
I thought the whole "missing link" thing consisted of a likely set of steps, not just one species.
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It does - that's why it is not likely the scientists said this. Administrative type flunkies, more likely.
 
Folks, as the "National Review" reports -- and as some here suspected -- the "missing link" hype is (a) way over the top, and (b) not by the scientists themselves, but by beurocrats and, worse, ad-men.

Look for "Hyping the monkey fossil" at this link.
 
"Missing link" references make me roll my eyes... another way for people who don't know very much about science to talk about science as though they're qualified...
 
Magnifico2.0 said:
"Missing link" references make me roll my eyes... another way for people who don't know very much about science to talk about science as though they're qualified...
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Yep. The phrase "missing link" just isn't used by evolutionary biologists, because it just doesn't make sense - every specimen is a link, and every one is "missing" until we know about it.

Evolution is a mosaic. Traits come and go over time, not all at once. "Missing Link" gives the impression that one generation is ape, and the next one is human. Evolution just doesn't work like that.
 
Seren_ said:
Every time someone find a new species, there is two more missing links : what came before and what came after.
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I can see the next article from the Discovery Institute now -

Why is it that we have never found a transition fossil from the Lemur-Monkey to modern Lemurs?

Obviously, this is just one more species God eliminated so that the remaining ones would fit into a space 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits.

(As an aside, I see that today's google page does feature the Lemur-Monkey fossil. At least the publicity seems to be working.)
 
Huh. You say you're showing me a great discovery. But all I see are two gaps where before there was only one!!

:p
 
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