On the strength of such finds it is said that the "missing link" has now been supplied.
Pithecanthropus Erectus is the name invented by Haeckel for the "missing link," and given by Dr.
But one "missing link" is hardly enough; there ought to be an extensive family of them to complete Mr. Darwin's plexus.
How, then, is the greater length of the plexus to be covered by a single "missing link?
And I may add, throw a flood of light on the question of the "Missing Link," and the development of man and the quadrumana from a common ancestral type.
Missing Link, dreamily, "but it has its drawbacks to a man accustomed to finding favour with the ladies.
Missing Link, "and do a perish here from thirst while that cow of a man swills his fill and makes a fortune out of my mortal agony?
Chief Carter’s face was eager as he said, “Kitty, you may have picked up a missing link!
Illustration: “You May Have Picked Up a Missing Link!
From time to time the discovery of the "missing link" is announced and telegraphed through the civilized world, only to be remanded to its place among the remains of brutes or men.
He is the embodiment of that "missing link" whose nonappearance had hitherto given so much comfort to the sceptical.
He was hailed by Haeckel and his followers as the veritable "missing link," and as such gained immediate notoriety.
A missing link, in the true sense, is like a bud of earlier years which stood near the point from which two twigs of the present day now diverge.
In brief, this animal was close to the point where reptiles and birds parted company in evolution, and although it was a primitive bird, it is in a true sense a "missing link" between reptiles and the group of modern birds.
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