Originally Posted by bhutocracy

It's cool but I think we need to stop calling these things missing links now that we have the resolution of human progression we have. It allows for the promotion of the idea that until we find the "missing" ones evolution isn't completely validified which isn't the case because all these links are doing is providing higher and higher resolutions of the fossil record.. Essentially each time a link is found you create two more "missing links" between the fossils on either side. It's like jumping towards a wall by covering exactly half the distance each time and never reaching the wall.. (except of course that the links are finite, but for practical purposes)