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The Missing Link

Evolution Talk

English - July 27, 2015 05:00 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 186 ratings
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Darwin himself never used the term ‘missing link’. He wasn't concerned with a missing link but he was concerned with gaps in the fossil record. It wasn’t that he thought these gaps hurt his theory. So where did this term come from and why is it still used?