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Paleontologists interested in major transitions in the history of life generally prefer the term transitional feature to missing link for several reasons.
One important transitional feature of Vesta can be found in its topography, or elevation.
Hence, in many cases, it is more accurate to focus attention on a specific transitional feature than on an organism as a whole.
Furthermore, this transitional feature also indicates the importance of testing different window sizes in the moving average calculation in our analysis.
This transitional feature is not found in the analysis of VEI datasets but in the modeling of the eruption magnitude dataset, probably because the datasets of eruption magnitude are taken at smaller intervals (every half an order of magnitude) and also contain different magnitude eruptions, which are larger than each magnitude category.
Another transitional feature of Dimetrodon is a ridge in the back of the jaw called the reflected lamina.
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Today, of course, cladistics is all about transitional features.
Check out more fossils that exhibit transitional features: ○ Whale evolution.
Transitional features between the carcinomatous and sarcomatous components were evident (Fig. 3).
Fig. 1 Ornithopod dinosaurs, showing specialized duck-billed dinosaurs and more primitive species with transitional features.
Fig. 3 Many fossil organisms exhibiting transitional features help illuminate the origin of land-living vertebrates.
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