[goodseedhomeschool]

like I said before. When I here the word "transitional" I think of one thing turning into another thing unlike itself. Do you see what I am saying. I just can't see that anywhere in nature.

[VadeRetro]

like I said before. When I here the word "transitional" I think of one thing turning into another thing unlike itself. Do you see what I am saying. I just can't see that anywhere in nature.

I hope you aren't asking "When have you ever seen a snake turn into a bird?" Populations evolve, not individuals. Note my preceding post to you, the link on Tempo and Mode.

[Aric2000]

OK, nothing is EXACTLY like anything else, even within the same species, humans ALL look different, unless they are identical twins.

A horse of 2 million years ago would of course recognize it's offspring as the same, but 500,000 years later, if it lived that long, it would NOT recognize it's own species, and if it lived a million years, it's species would be unrecognizable to it, but from generation to generation, the differences are SO SLIGHT, that there is no real difference, it is the addition of all the different changes OVER a LONG period of time, that causes the changes into a new species.

THere might even be a member of the species it came from in a different part of the world, but by the time you put those 2 creatures together, they would be unable to reproduce with each other, that is why they would be different species.

Micro evolutionary changes added to over a LONG period of time, create a Macroevolution that changes the original species into something else, the transitionals will NOT be noticeable, except over a VERY long period of time.

THat is a VERY basic explanation, there are so many variables that would cause these changes that it is insane. But the basics are there.