This "transitional link" goes backwards to fill a gap between Lucy and an earlier species. It gets further from us, not closer. When they find a transitional link that results in Humans, you can act as if you are really superior enough to belittle others...
Right. It fleshes out the connection between "Lucy" and earlier transitional species, to Australopithecus anamensis and to Ardipithecus ramidus.
When they find a transitional link that results in Humans, you can act as if you are really superior enough to belittle others...
I'm not sure what you're asking for. There are lots of links connecting us with Lucy (A. afarensis). Post "Lucy" are A. africanus, A. gahri,P. aethiopicus, P. robustus,P. bosei, H. habilis, H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster, H. erectus, H. heidelbergensis, "Archaic" H. sapiens, and Neanderthals. I guess those all qualify as transitional links resulting in humans, although I concede that there's conflicting evidence of descendence for the Neanderthals and the Paranthropites.
Now please explain what your point is again. To be honest, I suspect rather strongly that you have no idea what you're talking about.
This chart may help explain the position of this find.
Its not so much a missing link as another piece of evidence. There are a lot of pieces of evidence, and the few gaps between the different known specimens are getting smaller.
Source: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/environment/eePages/eeDating/HumanEvol_info.html