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Fossil record

Definition

noun

The totality of fossilized artifacts and their placement within the earth's rock strata. It provides information about the history of life on earth, for instance what the organisms look like, where and when they live, how they evolved, etc.


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Fossil record can provide interesting information about the evolution and the history of life on earth such as the way the particular species have lived during a specific geological period and then evolved in time.


Word origin: fossil + record


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Re: Whale related question ?

... of the even-tooled ungulates, and most likely evolved from them. The fossil record shows that early whales had rear legs, and special traits found today only in even-tooled ...

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by robsabba
Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:32 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Whale related question ?
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Views: 154

Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion

Yeah, it is possible for soft creatures to be fossilized, it just doesn't happen as often as hard creatures. It is difficult ... because there just aren't that many. Evolution isn't based on the fossil record only. The Cambrian Explosion is something we don't have all the answers ...

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by papa1983
Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:08 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion
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Views: 885

Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion

... however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted ...

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by gamila
Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:44 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion
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Views: 885

Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion

... however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted ...

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by papa1983
Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:15 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection wrong due to cambrian explosion
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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News

... as night is from day." We're talking a major gap, and since the fossil record shows cyano bacteria--then nothing transitioning to eukaryotes, alot of components happened ...

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by AFJ
Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:18 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bird-Dinosaur News
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