Paucity

... in the preceeding geological strata of transitional fossils thus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolution “Darwin himself found the paucity of transitional species to be one of the greatest weaknesses of his theory:” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium#Relation_to_Darwin.27s_theories ...

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david23, Thank you for your reply. The paucity of genes on Y is certainly true for humans and species with truncated Y chromosomes. I'm wondering about certain fish (e.g., poecilia reticulata), where the Y definitely contains genes/alleles which ...

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... dietary groups. The small number of differences in the phylogenetic analyses is likely the result of shared evolutionary history and the relative paucity of independent origins of herbivory and omnivory in our sample. Analyses of the relationship between diet and body size show that on average ...

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