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Missing Link
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What does Missing Link mean?
noun
- A hypothetical primate once thought necessary to explain a perceived evolutionary gap between apes and humans.
- (figuratively) Any sought-after or valuable intermediary figure or position.
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I'm not sure myself, but I think it's a missing link, like a bird with teeth or a lizard with wings.
"Speak on any subject you please, but bring in something about the missing link every few minutes. That will satisfy 'em."
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Taking the Crown evidence, at its strongest, there was a missing link; did the evidence of the bloodstains supply it?
I dare say, though, the missing link is somewhere in the legends.
Her face was of the prognathic type, and this, with her extraordinary prehensile powers of feet and lips, gave her the title of "Darwin's missing link."