RE: Fossil of oldest beaked bird discovered
Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:40:34 -0700SJL The fact is that in the fossil record, improvements did not occur in a
Darwinian, stepwise fashion, but each new feature usually appeared suddently,
fully formed, while the rest of the organism stayed the same.
Sometimes this is the case, other times it is far more gradual. Given of course the sparsity in time and space of fossil records this is not necessarily evidence against Darwinism. Furthermore science has found
that some genes (HOX) can control significant morphological changes.