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[[File:Pithecanthropus-erectus.jpg|thumb|left|"[[Java Man]]" or ''Pithecanthropus erectus'' (now ''[[Homo erectus]]''), the original "missing link" found in Java in 1891–92.]]
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After ''On the Origin of Species'', the idea of "lower animals" representing earlier stages in evolution lingered, as demonstrated in [[Ernst Haeckel]]'s figure of the human pedigree.{{sfn|Haeckel|2011|p=216}} While the vertebrates were then seen as forming a sort of evolutionary sequence, the various [[class (biology)|classes]] were distinct, the undiscovered intermediate forms being called "missing links."
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