The Myth of the Missing Link: How the media created a fable that lasted 100 years.

What if the biggest myth in the history of science was never about fossils at all?
In 1862, an anonymous newspaper reporter casually dropped the phrase "missing link" into a routine article about a Darwin lecture. What followed was one of the most successful and longest-running cases of scientific misdirection in modern history: a simple household term that the Victorian media, public, and scientific establishment embraced with suspended disbelief for nearly a century — even as it was repeat...