nPalaeontologists have a tendency to reconstruct fossils to make what they want out of it
nA single set
of fossil bones can be reconstructed in many different ways, based on the assumptions made by the palaeontologist and the artist
nSome scientists have correctly stated that “to take a line of fossils and claim that they
represent a
lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity
as a bedtime
story – amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
nJonathan
Wells, Icons of Evolution,
page 221