It's commonly though that new, important findings about our ancestors pop up every year. This year, two important findings have gotten a lot of publicity: the herbivorous Ida (discussed in another thread), a 47 million year old fossil (found in Germany) that could be one of many missing "links", and Lluc, a 12 million year hominid found in Spain, discussed in various articles (eg this one: Were our earliest hominid ancestors European?).
'Ancestor' isn't a very accurate word, because it basically covers every species and subspecies that led to the 'current version' of humans.
There are some times millions of years between birth date the fossils found. The only thing that becomes more and more clear. Many of the skeletons are incomplete. There's no theory about our ancestors history that everybody will agree in, and if even it such a theory existed, it will be challenged by new findings for decades and centuries to come.
Since every new finding can be seen more or less as a missing link, I doubt that the term 'missing link' has much significance.
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