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Emily Mortimer shares her take on the title character in her film Mary Poppins Returns. The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is none of his small-minded high-society peers seems to recognize this. Sir Lionel's last chance for acceptance by the adventuring elite rests on traveling to America's Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature.

What's the Missing Link?

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Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend.

He theorized that the missing link was to be found on the lost continent of Lemuria located in the Indian Ocean. He believed that Lemuria was the home of the first humans and that Asia was the home of many of the earliest primates , he thus supported that Asia was the cradle of hominid evolution. Haeckel argued that humans were closely related to the primates of Southeast Asia and rejected Darwin's hypothesis of human origins in Africa.


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The search for a fossil that connected man and ape was unproductive until the Dutch paleontologist Eugene Dubois went to Indonesia. Between and Dubois discovered remains that he later described as "an intermediate species between humans and monkeys". He named the hominin Pithecanthropus erectus erect ape-man , which has now been reclassified as Homo erectus. In the media, the Java Man was hailed as the missing link. A non-comprehensive list of famous fossil finds often credited as the "missing link" in human evolution.

Missing link (human evolution)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Missing Link. List of human evolution fossils , Pithecanthropus , Archaic humans , and Homo habilis. In Search of Human Origins.


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The great chain of being: A Nineteenth-Century Chain of Being". Journal of the History of Biology.

While some still use the term, experts abhor it because it implies that life is a linear hierarchy

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