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Topic	If you could bring back one extinct species what would you choose?
s0nicfan 01/02/22 3:45:21 PM #22:	AloneIBreak posted... What missing link? [LFAQs-redacted-quote] Njolk posted... That was never actually a thing, that's creationist propaganda The "missing link" as a creationist excuse for why god must have been involved isn't the same as actual gaps in our understanding of our own evolutionary history (which are very real): https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/health/australopithecus-sediba-human-history-scli-intl/index.html The findings help fill a gap in humankinds history, sliding in between the famous 3-million-year-old skeleton of Lucy and the handy man Homo habilis, which was found to be using tools between 1.5 and 2.1 million years ago. https://www.britannica.com/science/missing-link missing link, hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. In the latter half of the 19th century, a common misinterpretation of Charles Darwins work was that humans were lineally descended from existing species of apes. To accept this theory and reconcile it with the hierarchical Great Chain of Being, some fossil ape-man or man-ape seemed necessary in order to complete the chain. Today it is recognized that the relationship of modern humans to the present anthropoid apes (e.g., chimpanzees) is through common ancestors rather than through direct descent. These ancestors have yet to be identified, but ape-hominid divergence may have occurred 6 to 10 million years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_link_(human_evolution)#Famous_%22missing_links%22_in_human_evolution https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/is-dragon-man-a-missing-link-in-human-evolution/ Dragon Mans 140,000-year-old fossilized skull, found in China, may reveal new clues about the transition between our earlier ancestors and modern humans, and mating between Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Neanderthals --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz <cite>s0nicfan posted [p:961413549] in If you cou... [t:79836703]...</cite> <quote>AloneIBreak posted... </cite> <quote>What missing link?</quote> <cite>[LFAQs-redacted-quote]</cite> Njolk posted... </cite> <quote>That was never actually a thing, that's creationist propaganda</quote> The "missing link" as a creationist excuse for why god must have been involved isn't the same as actual gaps in our understanding of our own evolutionary history (which are very real): https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/19/health/australopithecus-sediba-human-history-scli-intl/index.html <quote>The findings help fill a gap in humankinds history, sliding in between the famous 3-million-year-old skeleton of Lucy and the handy man Homo habilis, which was found to be using tools between 1.5 and 2.1 million years ago.</quote> https://www.britannica.com/science/missing-link <quote>missing link, hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. In the latter half of the 19th century, a common misinterpretation of Charles Darwins work was that humans were lineally descended from existing species of apes. To accept this theory and reconcile it with the hierarchical Great Chain of Being, some fossil ape-man or man-ape seemed necessary in order to complete the chain. Today it is recognized that the relationship of modern humans to the present anthropoid apes (e.g., chimpanzees) is through common ancestors rather than through direct descent. These ancestors have yet to be identified, but ape-hominid divergence may have occurred 6 to 10 million years ago.</quote> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_link_(human_evolution)#Famous_%22missing_links%22_in_human_evolution https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/is-dragon-man-a-missing-link-in-human-evolution/ <quote>Dragon Mans 140,000-year-old fossilized skull, found in China, may reveal new clues about the transition between our earlier ancestors and modern humans, and mating between Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Neanderthals</quote> --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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