Further work is necessary to identify all the factors that underlie individual vulnerability to cannabis-related psychosis and to elucidate the biological mechanisms underlying this risk. “The image of human evolution on T-shirts is incorrect. Although significant progress has been made over the last few years, we are yet to find all the missing links. This perception is incorrect, as there is no such thing as a “missing link” in human evolution, says Professor Berger in an informative video, released by Wits University. In a gravel-pit at Piltdown Common, Southern England, in 1912, amateur collector Charles Dawson discovered what appeared to be the long-sought missing link.

This research has been misinterpreted by some sectors, creating the idea that Australopithecus sediba might be the “missing link”. In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the missing link between ape and man. The fossils that were found 10 years ago by Palaeoathropologist, Professor Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand, and his son Matthew, at Malapa in the Cradle of Human Kind in South Africa, has recently been described as the so-called “missing link” in human evolution, after the publication of new research by a team of international researchers that confirmed the unique species status of Sediba. Australopithecus sediba: No such thing as a missing linkĪutralopithecus sediba is not the missing link that connects modern man to its more primitive ancestors.

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