Mick Hartley

It’s one of the favourite lines of creationists and other critics of evolution: “where’s the missing link?” As though there’d be just one species between, say, man and ape, and the failure to find it casts doubt on the whole Darwinian enterprise. Carl Zimmer explains why they miss the point, looking at recent fossil discoveries that shed light on the evolution of whales.

One of the best essayists in the field.