Spoiler Alert: There is No “Missing Link” in Evolution

Anyone familiar with evolution knows that humans evolved from simpler forms of life over the course of billions and billions of years. Although we understand a great many things about how we evolved, there are a few gaps in our understanding.People sometimes refer to these gaps in our knowledge as “missing links.”This name stems from the idea that all life is connected in a kind of chain. You can trace it forwards, to see where life is heading, or backward, to meet our predecessors and see where we’ve been. It is based on the belief that organisms can be ordered into a nice line of progression, kind of like a ladder.There’s just one problem: This way of viewing things is entirely wrong.Read the article here