Sentence examples for gaps in the fossil from inspiring English sources

Ever since Darwin, scientists have been lamenting the gaps in the fossil record.

Dr. Wise, who teaches at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., wrote his dissertation on gaps in the fossil record.

Only some sort of an intelligence could have done it, they say, and they seek to debunk evolution by, for instance, pointing to gaps in the fossil record.

But when the two lines of primates diverged had seemed to be lost in the wide gaps in the fossil record.

However, this may not be true of the Mesozoic dinosaurs, in North America at least, where Siats helps fills in some of the previous gaps in the fossil record of large carnivores.

The origin of modern amphibians (frogs, salamanders, and caecilians) was controversial primarily because of the large gaps in the fossil record between modern forms and two possible ancestral groups, the Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli.

Thereafter, there is a gap in the fossil record.

"There's a big gap in the fossil record between insects that look like they might be able to glide and insects that have wings," Dr. Dudley said.

Now, this once-worrisome gap in the fossil record is a period of intense interest to geologists as well as paleontologists.

Discovery of new fossils should eventually reduce the gap in the fossil record.

There is a large gap in the fossil record along the line leading to Plesiosauria.