The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition.

Gareth J. Nelson

Mots clés science biology evolution darwinism darwin fossils macro-evolution macroevolution neo-darwinism fossil-record paleontology

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The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.

Gareth J. Nelson

Mots clés science biology evolution darwinism darwin fossils macro-evolution macroevolution neo-darwinism fossil-record paleontology

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