Fossils

... speciation happens very slowly. In other cases it is immediate in which case there are no transitional forms, and there can be no transitional fossils. Behavioral Speciation (very slow) Speciation is in part guided by what the organism itself finds desirable in the variety available to select ...

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... very slowly by taking small learning steps, one gene or epigentic switching change at a time. In other cases it is immediate, with no transitional fossils possible. How long it would take an isolated genome to slowly speciate depends on its learning rate (how fast it gains or changes new information/genes). ...

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... self-learning very well educated him and he became president of still world-class Amherst College where he described dinosaur footprints and trace fossils like none had ever done in science before. This was way before modern paleontology and finding the deserts full of dinosaur skeletons so this ...

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... "Nevertheless, the difficulty of assigning any good reason for the absence of vast piles of strata rich in fossils beneath the Cambrian system is very great. ...The case at present must remain inexplicable; a nd may be truly urged as a valid argument against ...

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... be fossilized, it just doesn't happen as often as hard creatures. It is difficult to find common ancestors of Cambrian organisms in Pre-Cambrian fossils 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 ...

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