(September 2, 2008 at 7:03 am)Tiberius Wrote: Gaps in the fossil record are expected. Fossilization of skeletons is an extremely tricky process, and we are lucky to have found so many animals. Explosions of life are most likely due to a sudden change in the environment that forced a lot of animals to adapt very quickly.Gaps in fossil beds are expected. Not gaps in the fossil record.
If it was as simply as you suggest then Stephen Gould would never have postulated the theory of punctuated equilibria.
