The Missing Link??

IrOnLaW · #1 09-15-2007, 11:27 AM

I should of payed more attention back in high school or partied less in college, but has the missing link ever been found between humans and apes, or is a species either just human or ape, or will we just never know for certain??? I understand the basics of evolution and think it certainly applies to nature and the world around us, but what is the closest relative we have that makes us distinct between man and ape, or are the two never going to be found to be one in the same. I am not very knowledgeable in this area, so this is a serious question.... Maybe a link would help.... Thanks

luckyme · #2 09-15-2007, 11:33 AM

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I understand the basics of evolution

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and you still think there can be a missing link?

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Arp220 · #3 09-15-2007, 11:37 AM

Do you mean 'missing common ancestor'?

Nielsio · #4 09-15-2007, 11:38 AM

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I should of payed more attention back in high school or partied less in college, but has the missing link ever been found between humans and apes, or is a species either just human or ape, or will we just never know for certain??? I understand the basics of evolution and think it certainly applies to nature and the world around us, but what is the closest relative we have that makes us distinct between man and ape, or are the two never going to be found to be one in the same. I am not very knowledgeable in this area, so this is a serious question.... Maybe a link would help.... Thanks

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Find and watch 'David Attenborough - Life on Earth', and you will understand.

popeye18 · #5 09-15-2007, 11:55 AM

I dont really understand what your looking for. Some fossil of a being with both ape and human characteristics? Theres plenty.Look up Australopithecus for starters. People who say theres a missing link are the same people who complain there are no transitional fossils. Every fossil of an animal that didnt go extinct is a transitional fossil. Want a more blatant and easy to see example? Look up Archaeopteryx .

IrOnLaW · #6 09-15-2007, 07:37 PM

First, I'm looking for the closest species resembling the homosapien that has ever walked or crawled on this earth. I apologize, but I don't know a lot about this subject.... Also, how long ago did it exist??

Secondly, do you forsee the current homosapien evolving into another species in the near future. Maybe some sort of cyborg, or just a genetically engineered human?? With gene therapy, what are the possibilities??

vhawk01 · #7 09-15-2007, 10:49 PM

There was something that was a lot like modern [censored] sapiens about 100 years ago. They called them [censored] sapiens.

Then there was something that was a lot like that another 100 years prior. They called them humans or people.

About 100 years before that, another very similar species, also called humans or people.

And so on.

NotReady · #8 09-16-2007, 03:14 AM

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People who say theres a missing link are the same people who complain there are no transitional fossils.

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They're also the same people, like me, who complain there's no scientific definition for transitional fossil. So evolution is the only "science" I know of that can't define one of its major features.

evank15 · #9 09-16-2007, 05:52 AM

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I should of payed more attention back in high school

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Probably.

Nielsio · #10 09-16-2007, 08:36 AM

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People who say theres a missing link are the same people who complain there are no transitional fossils.

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They're also the same people, like me, who complain there's no scientific definition for transitional fossil. So evolution is the only "science" I know of that can't define one of its major features.

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Can you give us a scientific definition of 'god'?