Evolution What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters

Systematics and Evolution 135 Creationists demand just one transitional fossil. When you give it to them, they then claim there ...

136 Evolution and the Fossil Record that because it has birdlike feathers, it is just a bird. Then they contradict themselves by ...

Systematics and Evolution 137 The first such unorthodox attempt of the 1950s and 1960s to reform the subjectivity and fuzzy meth ...

138 Evolution and the Fossil Record lack tails) and our grasping hands and stereovision from our earliest primate ancestors (nea ...

Systematics and Evolution 139 Thus, by using only the shared derived characters, we can construct a branching diagram of relatio ...

140 Evolution and the Fossil Record (or monophyletic) groups are those that are defined on shared derived characters and include ...

Systematics and Evolution 141 that does not include all descendants of a common ancestor. To a cladist, the wastebasket (paraphy ...

142 Evolution and the Fossil Record vertebrae of the backbone. Bit by bit, however, more biologists are coming to terms with the ...

Systematics and Evolution 143 fossil in our collections is the remains of the actual ancestor of another taxon (Schaeffer et al. ...

144 Evolution and the Fossil Record The most outrageous case was when a creationist spy named Luther Sunderland snuck into a clo ...

Systematics and Evolution 145 organisms, because the former have more genes in common than the latter). But since the 1990s, esp ...

146 Evolution and the Fossil Record biochemical systems (starting with the simple immunological distance method) and always conc ...

Porifera Ctenophora Cnidaria Lobopodia Tardigrada Chelicerata Crustacea Myriapoda Insecta Nematoda Rotifera Platyhelmintha Nemer ...

148 Evolution and the Fossil Record chapter 14). But for the many successes of molecular biologists, there have been some embar- ...

Systematics and Evolution 149 Gordian knots have been cut. The phylogeny of the placental mammals was an unsolved mystery that w ...

150 Evolution and the Fossil Record Arthur, W. 1997. The Origin of Animal Body Plans: A Study in Evolutionary Developmental Biol ...

The beautifully complete specimen of the transitional fossil between dinosaurs and birds, known as Archaeopteryx. (Photo by H. R ...

FIGURE 6.1. The concentric layers of the cabbage-like domed cyanobacterial mats known as stromatolites, here sliced off at the t ...

6 Life’s Origins To the Blazing Hot North Pole On a sunny day in late July, I am off to North Pole to examine these vestiges [of ...

FIGURE 6.2. (A–E) Filamentous cyanobacterial microfossils from the 3.46-billion-year-old rocks of the Warrawoona Group, North Po ...