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Author Topic:   Wikipedia article on "macroevolution"
Ben!
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Message 1 of 3 (172229)
12-30-2004 7:43 AM


Hi all,
Today, while reading about Stephen J. Gould, I ran across Wikipedia's macroevolution page, and noticed the following quote:
Outstanding questions in macroevolution include;
  • Why did the major groups of animals suddenly appear in the fossil record (known as the Cambrian Explosion)?
  • Similarly, why are there missing links in the fossil record, and a scarcity of fossils for transitional species?
  • Why have no new major groups of living things appeared in the fossil record for a long time?
  • Why does evolution apparently occur in spurts, with many species undergoing long periods of stasis with little evolutionary change (punctuated equilibrium)?
  • What process leads to speciation?
Now, many of these questions have been addressed directly in the "TalkOrigins" archive. The article DOES link to the TalkOrigins info, but only at the very bottom of the article.
I thought some people here might be interested in taking a look. As we all know, Wikipedia is publicly editable. It might be interesting to at least edit the questions, to phrase them in a less ... biased way. The questions themselves seem misleading to me (similar to "how long have you been cheating on me?" from your girlfriend, when you haven't been cheating at all).
Here's the article. Enjoy.
Macroevolution - Wikipedia
P.S. maybe this should go under links?

AdminDawg
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12-31-2004 1:20 AM


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01-24-2005 10:25 AM


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