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HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE FOSSIL RECORD?. DOCUMENTARY DRAMA. Fossils. ...are the preserved evidence of past life. Controversial Evidence. Darwin assumed that the rocks would eventually reveal many fossil intermediates.
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HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE FOSSIL RECORD? DOCUMENTARY DRAMA
Fossils... ...are the preserved evidence of past life.
Controversial Evidence • Darwin assumed that the rocks would eventually reveal many fossil intermediates. • Even in the Twenty-First Century, this assumption has still not been confirmed.
‘It seems the fossil record still makes great leaps from one form to the next.’ Darwin’s Missing Intermediates
Three Theories But which one is best? Let the scientific debate begin...