Missing Link Quotes (2)

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Quoted by John Pfeiffer in 'When Man First Stood Up', New York Times (11 Apr 1965), Sunday magazine, 83.
See also:  |  Ape (20)  |  Evolution (229)  |  Human (37)

The Javanese Anthropopithecus, which in its skull is more human than any other known anthropoid ape, already had an upright, erect posture, which has always been considered to be the exclusive privilege of humans. Thus this ancient
Report of 1892, quoted in Pat Shipman, The Man Who Found the Missing Link: The Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois (2001), 186.
See also:  |  Ape (20)  |  Charles Darwin (170)  |  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (22)

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