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Yes. At least fossils that are claimed to be transitional. Archaeopteryx comes to mind. Here's a list I managed to find: http://transitionalfossils.com/pics.html However I've never been convinced that these actually represent species changes or are simply a unique species of their own.
The only models that predict smooth, ordered differences between species across time are ones that hypothesize common descent. Models based on individual, isolated species don't predict it. Therefore, when we find it, and when we don't find anything to the contrary, it lends credibility to models that predicted it.
In the case of human evolution, we have a smooth, ordered line of species that goes back to about the time of the common ancestor with chimpanzees. That all of them are independent of one another is a possibility, but that they existed at all (along with the order in which they existed in history) was predicted by evolution before we'd even dug up their bones. That's a strong statement.
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