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71194de But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. evolution conclusion-before-evidence intermediate-forms missing-links fossils paleontology fossil-record macro-evolution macroevolution darwinism Charles Darwin
cb12e81 "I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper...and I clearly related it to paleontology. argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... evolution science eldredge fossil-record gould niles-eldredge speciational-evolution stephen-jay-gould harvard charles-darwin evidence darwin Ernst Mayr