Posted on 07/18/2016 7:33:05 AM PDT by fishtank
Should We Drop the Term 'Living Fossil'?
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
› Fossils Show Stasis and No Transitional Forms
Mark Carnall at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History recently wrote an article for the UK newspaper The Guardian. He argues that we should stop using the term "living fossil."1 What does his argument reveal about evolutionary thinking?
Charles Darwin first used the phrase in the Origin of Species to describe life forms that look essentially the same today as their fossil versions, even though their fossils are absent from intervening rock layers.
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Scary thought...he’s a few weeks younger than I am.
Keith Richards, that is.
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