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"Darwin said in order to prove evolution which is the number-one alternative to God you've got to be able to prove transitional forms, one animal transitioning into another," argued Cameron, producing a rendering made by a graphic artist.
Lacking direct evidence of the locomotory behaviour of transitional forms, researchers investigating the vertebrate water-to-land transition must attempt to utilise modern analogues that fit within the physical realm of possibility gleaned from the sparse fossil record.
In this period of time, species 3 gradually diverged from ancestor 1 through a series of transitional forms, but these transitional forms were not preserved.
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Many transitional forms help illuminate the origin of land-living vertebrates.
My work also contributes to a centuries-long evolutionary debate on the viability of transitional forms.
In fact, we see many examples of transitional forms in the fossil record.
But the physical proof of evolution has always demanded that there should be links or transitional forms.
You might be surprised, but the evolution of flight is, for the most part, well documented with transitional forms.
When evolution is rapid, transitional forms may not be preserved, even if fossils are laid down at regular intervals.
Trying to arrange a convincing series of transitional forms out of such incomplete evidence would have only set Darwin up to be contradicted as explorations continued.
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