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What about the notion that every fosssil that is not another of the same thing is, in fact, an intermediate species?
That's why taxonomists of fossils can be divided into 'lumpers' and 'splitters'. The lumpers say 'these fossils are obviously very similar - they must be the same species'. The splitters say 'there are all sorts of small differences - they must be different species'.
Of course, the twofold division is arbitrary. You could argue that there are many different categories of splitter...
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