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Author Topic:   Evolution. The Fossils Still Say NO!
David unfamous
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Message 5 of 9 (31950)
02-11-2003 12:25 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by thousands_not_billions
01-17-2003 7:28 PM


Ah... Gish and his missing fish!
Is he still standing by his claim that "fossilized fish abruptly appear fully formed in Cambrian rocks, and no one has found a single transitional form between invertebrates and fishes"?
"Proterozoic Metazoan Body Fossils." Bruce N. Runnegar and Mikhail A. Fedonkin, The Proterozoic Biosphere 369-388
"New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies." Wilson and Caldwell, Nature 361:442-444
'Science and Earth History - The Evolution/Creation Controversy' by Arthur N. Strahler contains a section on possible precursors to Cambrian metazoans .
References obtained in an article by Richard Trott, talkorigins archives.

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David unfamous
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Message 9 of 9 (32034)
02-12-2003 8:57 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by Coragyps
02-11-2003 8:01 PM


Thanks Coragyps. To add:
Myllokunmingia and Haikouichthys
"Phylogenetic analysis, which uses such physiological features to classify lifeforms, reveals that the fossils are primitive fish similar to the living hagfish and lampreys. Each fossil lacks true bony tissue, but has a pair of ventral fins, consistent with current theories of the early evolution of vertebrates. Their existence shows that a variety of vertebrates had already evolved in the Early Cambrian. The primitive chordates, the group out of which vertebrates evolved, must have developed from the more primitive deuterostomes in Ediacaran times, 555 million years ago, if not earlier." - http://www.dol-ex.org/HTML/p4_1.html

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