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After On the Origin of Species, the idea of " lower animals " representing earlier stages in evolution lingered, as demonstrated in Ernst Haeckel's figure of the human pedigree.
While the vertebrates were then seen as forming a sort of evolutionary sequence, the various classes were distinct, the undiscovered intermediate forms being called " missing links ".
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