2006-09-21 21:04:20 · 18 answers · asked by bprice215 5 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
No, no one "missing link" will be found, because plenty of evolutionary links between humans and the common ancestor that we share with modern apes have been found. There are lots of "transitional" species that are well described in the literature that deals with human evolution. The find that has been in the news lately, nicknamed "Lucy's Baby," belongs to one such transitional species, Ausralopithicus afarensis.
By the way, for someone to ask the question "if humans came from apes, then why are there still apes" is incredibly childish and betrays a fundamental lack of understanding. Humans didn't evolve from apes; both humans and apes evolved from a common ape-like ancestor that lived millions of years ago who, incidentallly, no longer roams the earth.
2006-09-22 01:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by forbidden_planet 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There will only be the missing links that evolutionary "scientists" decide is a missing link. Many have been later proven to be something other, or a complete hoax, and yet people still accept automatically whatever they spout out. There are no links. If every living thing on this earth evolved , over BILLIONS of years mind you, than there should be more transitional fossils than any other kind. We should be tripping over them. Think of how many transitions had to have taken place even within one creature. Now add up all the living things and billions of years. Its insanity. Plus you have to take into account that these so called scientists often find things and use their handy dandy (inacurate) dating methods and if it doesn't fit the rest of what they found, they discard it. Amazing they can call it science.
2006-09-22 07:12:48 · answer #2 · answered by Coco 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Like others have said, there is no ONE missing link because evolution is a PROCESS, it is not like one day there is a full human, evolution occurs slowly and there are many forms in between before we get to the form of an organism we know today.
As for the "Christians", I do not see how evolution is incompatible with your beliefs. Isnt is possible that G-d set up the evolutionary process? By the way, if you believe in Jesus, you do not believe in G-d. because G-d is not a man, or a woman, but a force, a being which is unknowable. Muslims and Jews believe in a G-d which is unknowable. Christians are idolators. They have statues and paintings for their image of G-d. Muslims and Jews are forbidden to make images of G-d, it is ARROGANT IN THE EXTREME to claim you know what G-d looks like, or is like, or talks like, or WANTS. YOU CANNOT KNOW G-D, YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND G-D.
2006-09-25 05:31:26 · answer #3 · answered by bongoboy2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The missing link may be our own misconceptions on how species formed during those earlier time periods. We haven't yet it would seem taken in the the various environmental information that may have greatly contributed to so many mutations in such a short amount of time. We realize today how so many chemicals and minerals can cause mutations along with magnetic anomalies and so forth. These compounds were so present back then in the water and various plant life that may have been ingested for survival. We need to look more at the environmental changes of the earth than just chance breeding and necessity. One scientist is working on this with startling mutations and hybrids. The DNA at that time may have been incredibly sensitive to environment as well. How we could have evolved in those hazards is even more confusing. Sanctuary may have been by chance living in areas that nullified or suppressed these mutations. Lets call them Edens.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15592404
2006-09-22 07:49:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There have been thousands of missing links found, from the earliest bacteria to prehistoric man. Most fossils are still in the ground, so expect many more species yet to be found. But we descended from lower life forms. So let's see if we can advance beyond what we are now.
2006-09-22 03:39:09 · answer #5 · answered by Big Momma Carnivore 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes and I think it has been found. Homo erectus for one. You can always try to devide it further and say well why don't we have the species between homo erectus and man, etc. Humans did evolve from apes according to science. We did not evolve from chimps or any other modern ape. Chimps and humans probably evolved from a bipedal ancestor, known as Toumai, another probable missing link. The porblem is that we simply don't have enough good fossil evidence. It is hard to be sure where all the links fit in.
2006-09-22 17:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A missing link between what and what?
Apes and man? Yes - several... unless you're a creationist, in which case every link that's found just points out two more links that are still missing.
2006-09-21 21:09:25 · answer #7 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is the missing link to this question. I found it!
2006-09-23 17:06:07 · answer #8 · answered by Busy Lady 2010 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only link that people seem to miss is the walk with our Lord Jesus Christ
2006-09-23 07:45:58 · answer #9 · answered by tanya 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We have not defined what is really missing in the evolution of man and apes. How can we find that we can't define.
2006-09-25 08:50:56 · answer #10 · answered by Aushbaba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋