Please do not bother answering if you cannot give me a source for verification. (I have access to numerous research libraries, so any source citation I'll eventually be able to look up.) I am not soliciting your opinions, but the facts on what this term is supposed to presently denote according to the experts (If the notion is considred ambiguous, please cite with your disambiguation). Thanks.
2006-12-09 21:46:20 · 3 answers · asked by russell_my_frege 2 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
The "missing link" is a popularuzed expression of the problem/issue of "transitional fossils" in evolutionary theorie.
The term was used after Darwin published "The origin of species" and mainly refered to the "missing link" between apes and human beings.
I suggest you harvest your libraries with the new key word transitional fossil or/and transitional form.
2006-12-10 06:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by Robert K 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Try these as search queries
Australopithecus ramidus - 5 to 4 million years BCE
Australopithecus afarensis - 4 to 2.7 million years BCE
Australopithecus africanus - 3.0 to 2.0 million years BCE
Australopithecus robustus - 2.2 to 1.0 million years BCE
Homo habilis - 2.2 to 1.6 million years BCE
Homo erectus - 2 to 0.4 million years BCE
Homo sapiens - 400,000 to 200,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens neandertalensis - 200,000 to 30,000 years BCE
Homo sapiens sapiens - 130,000 years BCE to present
The "missing link" lies before A. ramidus, probably about 6-10 million years ago.
Sorry, I can't quote the source. I've had this on a word doc for a while.
2006-12-11 03:20:38 · answer #2 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one/ones that is/are missing
2006-12-10 05:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by RZA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋