Sentence examples for intermediate fossil from inspiring English sources
"It's a really amazing, remarkable intermediate fossil," he said.
These cases are eventually resolved with further research and the discovery of intermediate fossil forms.
Creationists rely on such views to support their arguments against macroevolution, in particular by pointing out the "conspicuous" absence of "large numbers of intermediate fossil organisms" (Changing lives 2003), using what is still unknown to question whether evolution has occurred.
The close relationship of these groups to the Marsileaceae is supported by both morphologic and molecular analysis, as well as by the discovery of an intermediate fossil named Hydropteris.
A wealth of intermediate fossils has made the evolutionary saga toward modern birds one of the best documented transitions in the history of life (Fig. 1).
The transition from land to water is documented by a series of intermediate fossils, many of which are known from India and Pakistan.
Researchers have founds several intermediate fossils that trace the transition from land to water in whales and manatees, but they have no such record for pinnipeds--seals, sea lions, and walruses.
Thus, when creationists claim that there are "no intermediate fossils" (Denton 1986; Johnson 1991; Gish 1995), when in fact they are abundant in the geological record (Padian et al. 1999; Prothero 2007), a largely uninformed public accepts such statements.
Charles Darwin regarded the solitary existence of Cambrian trilobites and total absence of other intermediate fossils as the "gravest" problem to his theory of natural selection, and he devoted an entire chapter of The Origin of Species on the matter.
Consider that even if there were intermediate fossils, that could allow for thousands of these life forms in fossils to be evolving at various stages for evolution.
Fluctuating electricity can be converted into hydrocarbon fuels via hydrogen as intermediate, thus replacing fossil fuels and possibly be attractive as a long-term storage in excess electricity generation situations.
