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Creation & Evolution
Transitional Fossil Features
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<blockquote data-quote="Willtor" data-source="post: 68220872" data-attributes="member: 108948"><p>This is Zeno's Paradox-lite. It's true that if basically every animal that died produced a fossil, one would expect to be able to find all of the intermediates between any two species (up and down the tree). But not every animal produces a fossil. If, to use your example, we have fossils D and J, we can look for E, F, G, H, and I, but we shouldn't expect to find very many of them.</p><p></p><p>That said, there are sometimes relatively smooth sequences for closely related species that are alive, today. We've recovered a ton of intermediates between humans and chimpanzees, for example. But we only diverged about 6 million years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willtor, post: 68220872, member: 108948"] This is Zeno's Paradox-lite. It's true that if basically every animal that died produced a fossil, one would expect to be able to find all of the intermediates between any two species (up and down the tree). But not every animal produces a fossil. If, to use your example, we have fossils D and J, we can look for E, F, G, H, and I, but we shouldn't expect to find very many of them. That said, there are sometimes relatively smooth sequences for closely related species that are alive, today. We've recovered a ton of intermediates between humans and chimpanzees, for example. But we only diverged about 6 million years ago. [/QUOTE]
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