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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (12199)8/6/1997 11:36:00 AM
From: Krowbar   of 108807
 
Punctuated equilibrium is a response to the seeming absence of intermediates, and intermediates were
stressed by Darwin. Darwin made a big deal out of gradualism, arguing that his theory hung on the idea. I
suppose some argue that the intermediates were there, but that they were simply so brief in existence as to
leave no trace between the evolutionary plateaus where the bulk of fossils are found.>>

JFQ, The vast majority of animals that die leave no fossil. It is only under special circumstances that they are formed, such as a sudden volcanic eruption covering an animal with dry ash. I haven't run across any racoon fossils lately, but I bet racoons exist.

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