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[[File:Punctuated Equilibrium.svg|thumb|upright=1.7|Sudden jumps with apparent gaps in the fossil record have been used as evidence for [[punctuated equilibrium]]. Such jumps can be explained either by [[macromutation]] or simply by relatively rapid episodes of gradual evolution by natural selection, since a period of say 10,000 years barely registers in the fossil record.]]
While "missing link" is still a popular term, well-recognized by the public and often used in the popular media,<ref name="zimmer">{{cite journal |last=Zimmer |first=Carl |author-link=Carl Zimmer |date=19 May 2009 |title=Darwinius: It delivers a pizza, and it lengthens, and it strengthens, and it finds that slipper that's been at large under the chaise lounge [sic] for several weeks... |url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/05/19/darwinius-it-delivers-a-pizza-and-it-lengthens-and-it-strengthens-and-it-finds-that-slipper-thats-been-at-large-under-the-chaise-lounge-for-several-weeks/ |journal=[[Discover (magazine)|The Loom]] |type=Blog |___location=Waukesha, WI |publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]] |access-date=2011-09-10 |archive-date=5 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905220434/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/05/19/darwinius-it-delivers-a-pizza-and-it-lengthens-and-it-strengthens-and-it-finds-that-slipper-thats-been-at-large-under-the-chaise-lounge-for-several-weeks/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> the term is avoided in scientific publications.<ref name="NS2645" /> Some bloggers have called it "inappropriate";<ref name="hm">{{cite web |url=http://www.biologytimes.com/why-the-term-missing-links-is-inappropriate/ |title=Why the term 'missing links' is inappropriate |last=Sambrani |first=Nagraj |date=10 June 2009 |website=Biology Times |type=Blog |access-date=2015-05-19}}</ref> both because the links are no longer "missing", and because human evolution is no longer believed to have occurred in terms of a single linear progression.<ref name="NS2645" /><ref name="nomorelink">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Newly found fossils could link to human ancestor |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/newly-found-fossils-could-link-to-human-ancestor-1.930070 |work=[[CBC News]] |___location=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=8 April 2010 |access-date=2015-05-19 |quote=It's tempting to call the new species a 'missing link' between earlier species and modern humans, but scientists say the concept no longer applies, given new knowledge of human evolution. [...] Researchers now say the evolution of humans consisted of a number of diverse species in many branches, not a single smooth line from ape-like species to humans.}}</ref>
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* {{cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Robin |date=11 February 2009 |title=Fossils Reveal Truth About Darwin's Theory |url=http://www.livescience.com/3306-fossils-reveal-truth-darwin-theory.html |work=[[LiveScience]] |___location=Ogden UT |publisher=[[Purch]] |access-date=2015-05-19}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html |title=Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ |last=Hunt |first=Kathleen |date=17 March 1997 |website=[[TalkOrigins Archive]] |publisher=The TalkOrigins Foundation, Inc. |___location=Houston, TX |access-date=2015-05-19}}
* {{cite web |url=http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/ |title=''Tiktaalik roseae'' |publisher=[[University of Chicago]] |___location=Chicago, IL |access-date=2015-05-19 |archive-date=12 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112134921/http://tiktaalik.uchicago.edu/ |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web |url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/whales/Segment.aspx?irn=161 |title=Whales Tohorā |publisher=[[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]] |___location=Wellington, New Zealand |access-date=2015-05-19}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/avians.html |title=Are Birds Really Dinosaurs? |last=Hutchinson |first=John R. |date=22 January 1998 |website=DinoBuzz |publisher=[[University of California Museum of Paleontology]] |___location=Berkeley, CA |access-date=2015-05-19}}
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