If the evolution of species is to be believed why are there no transitional species around?

Question

For instance there are no known trnasitional species known for Amphibians to reptiles, Fish to amphibians or Single cells to invertebrates!

For instance there are no known trnasitional species known for Amphibians to reptiles, Fish to amphibians or Single cells to invertebrates!

Full living transitional species as in they will develop over time into a new species.

rhsaunders - can you post a link to your findings?

you might be interested to read this http://www.case-creation.org.uk/index2.html

Looks like a lack of knowledge in areas is easy to mislead. The reading continues....

Answer 1

how would you class a transitional species? One way is to label it as a race or as a variety. Also the idea that there must be a half ape man is wrong because they are from common ancestors. not from each other. look again at the tree of evolution and think about how it branches. On a real tree why are there no transitional branches? The situation is similar.

Answer 2

Actually we are all a transitional species. Every species is a transition of what the species used to be like, and where it is going. Every species was different in some ways a long time ago, and will be different eventually in the future. They might even split into two species. That is why you could say it is currently a transitional species.

I'm not trying to be mean, but your question is very common of a person who doesn't really understand the science of evolution. If you are interested in the subject, you should do some research.

Answer 3

How about echidnas and playpuses, transitional species between egg-layers and mammals?

In most cases the transition will have occurred as conditions changed from favouring the old genus to the new one. A species that was neither one thing nor the other might well be disadvantaged against both, say, the amphibians in the old habitat and full-blown reptiles in the new one, and therefore would have died out once reptiles had evolved.

How do you know birds, say, aren't a transitional species between reptiles and a kind of super-bird yet to come?

And if everything was created as it was supposed to be by a perfect God, why do fossils of transitional species such as archaeopteryx exist?

Answer 4

You are arbitrarily listing connections that may not exist in the evolutionary tree. I'm pretty sure that amphibians and reptiles evolved independently of one another. Furthermore, if you are looking for living transitional species that is a snipe hunt. When species evolve from other species it is an incredibly slow process... hundreds of thousands of years. Within this time the species is becoming better suited for it's environment so the individuals that achieve this survive while the others die out. Another point worth mentioning is that speciation occurs when a group from one species becomes separated from the rest. When 2 groups of the same species are subjected to different environments they evolve in different ways.

Answer 5

99% of species that ever existed are extinct now. Very few species exist for more than a few million years. You can' then expect transitional species between the groups you listed to still be around. You have to go to the fossil record - see links.

That said, many species exist which are descendants from intermediate forms, and which preserve a lot of the intermediate features, eg. the platypus (a reptile like mammal).

And as others have said, every species alive today is a potential transitional species to something else, as long as it doesn't go extinct first.

Answer 6

If you mean species living nowadays, there are. The genetic tree branches have diverged far enough over time that the similarities are not obvious. But if you are looking for a smooth transition, you won't find it: the genetic information is coded digitally rather than as analog data, so there is at least a one bit change in the genome for any mutation, and if the mutation involves activating an intron, or de-activating an exon, the genetic change can be so substantial as to be un-obvious. Incidentally, I have proven that evolution is correct: there is no longer any excuse for not believing in it.

Answer 7

Firstly, there are transitional species all over the fossil record. Secondly, as several other respondents have pointed out, all the species around now can be considered as transitional species in the evolution of future species

Answer 8

particular. he's mendacity. there is not any reason to "have faith" evolution. Evolution is a actuality. each residing creature is a transitional. each animal species that ever lived and is now extinct is a transitional. Your instructor could be stated, as despite he thinks he's coaching, that is not biology and he's at superb extraordinarily blind to evolution. indexed right here are 2 sturdy web pages detailing transitional fossils.

Answer 9

Aren't we all, animals, humans, amphibians, in the transitional period now. I't's only because of the speed of time that you don't know what transitional looks like!..
..Take a history book for example, lots of pictures of dinosaurs pictured about 500 million yrs ago. The next picture will be one of 300 million years ago.
What i'm trying to say is that history 'slows down' the more we record it....er.

Answer 10

They certainly exist in the fossil record. As for now, what would you count as a transitional species? Some whales have a vestigial pelvis for example. Each new generation of humans is statistically significantly different genetically from its progenitors. What about the moths that turned from white to gray as the industrial revolution progressed?