| thranx said: The big holes would be the steps taken between what we were before and what we are now. PLease show me the single cell organsim we evlovled from all the way through to humans. I have yet to see that. If we did evolve from other things were are the baby steps? |
To vaguely paraphrase some quote I heard a while ago "Each transitional fossil we find is a travesty - it adds two new holes to be filled on either side of it"
Essentially it's impossible to get a truly complete evolutionary chain because evolution is a continuous not a discrete process, in addition to that fossilisation is an uncommon process that only occurs in certain conditions so a large part of what once lived on this earth simply no longer has fossils (and another part has fossils that have yet to be found). This means that the evolutionary chain can never be 'complete' and no scientist will ever claim it can be, however much can be extrapolated from what we do know.
However some chains of evolution are remarkably complete - for example the evolution of the horse or of modern humans.
