"I don't know about this one way or the other, but it seems this can't be "news" because they claim to discover the missing link every few years."
That's because everytime you find one missing link between two known genus/species/subspecies, you create two new (although smaller) gaps in the fossil record. At first you have a gap between fossils A and B. Then you find fossil C that links the two. Now you have a gap between fossils A and C, and another gap between fossils C and B. The only way not to have any more missing links between two species would be to find a fossil from every generation between the two.
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