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Does anyone know (anthropology wise) of any living missing links ,people, population wise?

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I'm indeed fishing for an answer from those in the anthropology -science fields. Does anyone have a gut feeling about a population or culture of people that seems to be the "link".

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  1. You are asking about "living fossils" and the answer is no.  All hominids living today are Homo sapiens and equally advanced for that viewpoint.

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  2. No, there are no "missing links" currently living. All human beings are the same species, Homo sapiens. The differences between various populations are equivalent to the difference between breeds of cats or goldfish. There is really no such thing as a single "missing link."  Human evolution has produced a number of species: Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo heidelbergensis, etc. There is a great deal of controversy how all of these were related. For example, there is a theory that Neanerthals are not the ancestors of  modern humans, but a species that existed in parallel with us, the way that, say, bald eagles and golden eagles exist as distinct species.

  3. Terry Bradshaw

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