[fish hawk]

They had to call it a "missing link" to promote Darwinism. It is not a missing link and it is an ape not half ape half man. See my tag line.

[bert]

.....They had to call it a "missing link" to promote Darwinism......

They use the term because it is all they know to call it, and like style books that confuse cement with concrete, the use of missing link is mandatory.