It enters the debate between evolution and religion, and challenges scientists, literary theorists, and religious advocates to rethink the relations between their disciplines. Whether offering analysis of a turn of phrase or chemical reaction, Missing Link presents a vision of literature that is also a vision of the cosmos, and vice versa. Each tree has a variety of branches, but one tree has never changed into another tree. Instead of branches on one evolutionary tree of life, each created kind should be thought of as its own tree in the orchard of God ’s creation. It is either ape or humannot a transition between the two. It is the unbroken thread between matter and spirit. For the biblical creationist, there are no missing links. Metaphor is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
He considers the ways in which DNA learns how to liken things that have been, how mutation makes errors and then tries them on, and how evolution is hypothesis – nature's way of "thinking more." The mind is a matrix of relations: neural synapses cascade into ever-changing pathways and patterns.
With examples from centuries of poets, critics, philosophers, and scientists, he details how metaphor is a chemistry, an exchange of energies forming and dissolving, and an openness in the spaces between things. A bizarre prehistoric skull discovered in Israel with a flat head, no chin and huge teeth could be the missing link in human evolution, a new study revealed. McKenna believed that the hominids discovered their own consciousness, their own self-awareness, and eventually, the incorporation of psychedelic mushrooms spawned language, the active impulse to speak, ‘the going forth of the word’.
In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed in the nature of things. The DNA from many races were used to take the human genetic body from neanderthal and cro-mags past the 'missing link' point. The fossils of Australopithecus sediba were found in 2008 after the boy, Matthew Berger, stopped to examine the rock he tripped over in what is now called the Malapa. Humans evolved to a point - to the missing link - and that's where ET intervention comes in. We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link – metaphor – is always in front of us. Compared to Ida, Lucy (one of the most famous fossils among our evolutionary ancestors from the species Australopithecus aphaeresis) is a mere baby at just 3.2. Thanks to a nine-year-old boy who tripped over a rock while following his dog, scientists made a discovery that they are now convinced is the missing link in human evolution.