@ Dr. Heinz Lycklama
The Fossil Record - 4
nDarwin admitted in 1859:
n“Why
then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain.”
nPaul
Moody wrote in a standard
textbook:
n“So far as we can judge from the geologic
record, large changes seem
usually to have arisen suddenly. ... fossil forms, intermediate between large subdivisions of classification, such as
orders and classes, are seldom [read never] found.”