If you'll excuse my butting in,
I read Niles Eldridge's "Time Frames," which I found quite revealing. By his own account, he set out to demonstrate evolution in the fossil record.
He chose the trilobite Phacops rana because its ubiquity and high skeletal definition seemed particularly suited to demonstrating gradual change in an organism over time. He describes how month after month, year after year his research went on until he was so bleary-eyed on the bus ride home that he couldn't even read.
Then he struck gold! In an Ohio road cut, he found examples that went, apparently fairly rapidly, from 18 rows of compound eyes, to 17 rows, and then to 15! For Eldridge, it was the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
The reduction in complexity from 18 to 17 to 15 rows sealed the deal:
Complexity reduces to simplicity over time THEREFORE complexity arises from simplicity!!!
Eureka!!! ---Or something.
The reduction in complexity from 18 to 17 to 15 rows sealed the deal:Evolution works both ways, think about the massive size and weird complexity of dinosaurs for example. Dinosaurs get hit with an extinction event and then you end up with just little mammals and birds(a gross simplification, but you get my point). It's cyclic.Complexity reduces to simplicity over time THEREFORE complexity arises from simplicity!!!
Eureka!!! ---Or something.