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missing link

something necessary for completing a series; specif., an animal not yet found in the fossil record, that is an intermediate form of two animals, as such an animal coming between an ape and a human

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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