[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

it's not that we haven't found a lot of bones, it's that we haven't found very many intermediate species, compared to all the ones that must have existed.

How about these (not to scale):

Orohippus, 52-45 MYA

Mesohippus, 37-32 MYA

Miohippus, 32-25 MYA

Parahippus, 24 -17 MYA

Pliohippus 12-6 MYA

Equus, 5 MYA-present

[js1138]

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[mrjesse]

How about these (not to scale):

Thanks for the pictures. But that doesn't look to be any more variation then has happened to the dog, in the last 150 years or whatever. Compare a great dane to a teacup poodle -- the bones you list don't appear to me to provide evidence of anything other then variation within a kind (which I already know is true. I grew up on a farm.)

Is that really all the change there was in 45 million years? No more then intentional dog variation in 150 years?

But the sort of "yet undiscovered intermediate fossils" which I was talking about are the sort that get from dog to horse, and from fish to dog. There are certainly lots of fossils from each group, but what's lacking is the fossils that build a fine chain from one group to another.

-Jesse

PS: Also let us not forget that the shape of these skeletons and their posture has been somewhat influenced by the preconceptions of the people who pinned them all back together. I'm not saying they did it wrong just that we need to remember that a person, who never saw the animal alive, did pin them together.

[mrjesse]

How about these (not to scale):

How about these, to scale:

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This one wouldn't inline

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Micro-evolution in short time periods can produce some very drastic changes.

-Jesse