(January 10, 2014 at 11:15 pm)orogenicman Wrote:(January 10, 2014 at 7:19 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Yes they are, but most ( even scientists) mean transitional forms are fossils reflecting change from one clade to another.
Do you know of a fossil species that doesn't?
That's the question that immediately came to my mind when I read that.
I suppose it depends on what one's expectation is. If one expects to find crocoducks, one will be disappointed (not that we should expect to find such a thing). Obvious examples like Archaeopteryx Lithographica are few and far between - and are hotly contested by the audience in question. If that's what someone's looking for, yeah, it's going to look like there are few.
The far more common examples are a tougher sell to persons not versed in biology, and a far, far tougher sell to those who have an agenda to protect.
That phylogenetic trees created from paleontological evidence substantially align with those created from genome sequencing seems to paint a pretty compelling case that the naysayers are wrong - though that line of evidence is pretty tough for the average Joe to digest.
