'A' missing link, not 'the' missing link. Have you ever appreciated the wide variation in canines that is acheived by very minor manipulations of neotony in their genetic material? Think for a moment in what an incredibly short time period mankind has selectively created such an amazing variation. As the understanding of genetic code expands so will this ability. You ain't seen nothing yet...
I was watching a young Golden Eagle learn how to fly behind my house the other day. He was colored so different from his parents that I began to wonder if they were really Golden Eagles, or some other kind of hawk.
So I got on the net and looked up Golden Eagles, and practically every one I found looked different from the birds behind my house. Particularly, most on the net had feathers on their legs, and ours didn't.
After looking at bunches of pix, I finally decided that there are lots of variations on what defines a "Golden Eagle". And some don't have feathers on their legs.
Bottom line, there is a huge variation of life, both over distance, and time. And given enough time (and there's been LOTS of that), anything is within the imagination.
It's been interesting that the predictions made a century ago about what the early forms of man would look like are pretty close to what they're finding. There's some differences in the detail, which just gives more credence to the finds. Had they been real hoaxes, then what was found would have matched the predictions exactly.
Truer words were never spoken, --- I ain't seen nothing yet. And neither has anyone else; just a long history of hoaxes, and the dashed hopes of the pseudo scientists drooling over their bogus "discoveries". All these egotiscal people are doing is taking the longest road to Truth possible. They will leave no stone unturned in the ifinite sphere of error before they finally grow old and die in their useless search. Pick up a Bible, man, and save yourself a lifetime of wasted effort.