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Old 04-17-2002, 11:31 PM  
bhutocracy
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Originally posted by drunkmonkey


I guess that the definition of transitional is subjective. Assuming the vastness of the fossil records there is a suprising lack of "incomplete" animals making the transition from one species to another. Finding the fossil of a monkey with a large and less sloping forhead to me does not prove a theory. Neither does a bird with teeth. No more than finding a mammal that lays eggs or a bird that has wings but cannot fly prove to me that they evolved from anything. It stands as a possiblity but not a fact.
but many many of these "possibilities" inexorably do point in one direction..
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