Re: Lung Fossils Suggest Dinos Breathed in Cold Blood

Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 18:20:06 -0600

At 05:34 AM 1/4/98 +0800, Stephen Jones wrote:

>Agreed. Eldredge candidly admits that the fossil record actually
>shows "truly instantaneous, overnight evolutionary leaps", but the
>the Neo- Darwinist can always maintain his gradualism by claiming
>that the gap occurs when the evolution did.

Eldredge admits no such thing according to your own quotation. Notice the
word 'not' at the end of the first line.

>
>"The convenient thing about gaps in the record is that we need not
>invoke truly instantaneous, overnight evolutionary leaps to explain
>the transitions we seem to see in our fossils. With perhaps as much
>as a million years missing, and certainly for such modest change as
>the column counts in these trilobite eyes, we can easily maintain
>that evolution is, after all, a gradual, intergradational affair.
>We might regret not being able to "see" that transition-the gap in
>preservation unfortunately seeming to occur when the evolution did."
>(Eldredge N., "Time Frames", 1985, p72)

glenn

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