n “I fully agree with your comments on
the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew
of any, fossil
or living, I would certainly have included them.... I will lay it on
the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”
n
Colin Patterson, the senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in
London and
author of the museum’s general text on evolution, in a letter dated April 10,
1979.