Greetings all,
quote:
Jerry: The problem is that there isn't any time-stamped pictures of a single species stopping at these monuments: Species A -----> Transitional 1 -----> Transitional 2 -----> Transitional 3 -----> Transitional 4 -----> Transitional 5 -----> Species B -----> Not ONE!
Hmmm...
This is a very odd way of describing it.
Jerry,
do you think the transitionals are NOT species as well?
Do you think there are TWO different TYPES of fossil?
Species and Transitional?
This seems to be a common mis-conception, but totally false.
As others have pointed out, what we DO see is:
Species A -----> Species D -----> Species E -----> Species J ...
In short - we DO see exactly what you said we don't.
Every transitional fossil represents a species,
every species is a transitional form.
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