[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your post!

I do recall that chart, it shows Time one way and morphological distance the other. The Darwin prediction looks like a tree, the fossil evidence looks like a lawn.

For lurkers, you can see the pictures here.

[stanz]

I recall Clifford Jolly stating that, rather than looking at Darwinian prediction as a tree, it could be suggested that it resembles the rings of an onion with phyla radiating outward. Interesting construct, but I never saw any chart.

[Doctor Stochastic]

No, the fossil date look like trees. One can easily see the structures. One (unfortunately now deceased, at 90+) palenologist friend of mine showed me his work from the late 1940s and early 1950s showing the family structures of trees on both sides of the South Atlantic. The oldest fossils were exactly the same. Later fossils showed a binary divergence along the Atlantic. The orignal structure split into two structues, one in Africa and one in South America. The structures continued to evolve independently. One could trace family trees back to a common ancestor from before the split. This was before the mechanism of continental drift was discovered.