So if evolution is true then what was the link between amphibians/reptiles and mammals?

Answer 1

Joan Rivers?

Answer 2

Asking what's the link between amphibians and reptiles like asking what's the link between the first one-celled organism, and the first two-celled organism. Why would you think there'd be a link in between them? What would it be? A one-and-a-half-celled organism?

Alternatively, I could just throw an armadillo at your face and yell "Mammal with scales, b**ch!". But that approach seems a bit harsh.

Answer 3

i'd say that the nearest element to a transitional species between amphibians and mammals will be a creationist. yet, i have no real technological expertise to lower back that up, so perhaps i am going to call it the sensible layout idea.

Answer 4

Religion and evolution does not have to be two separate trains of thought.

I believe that species evolve, and I also believe in Creationism through God. Man is the first free-thinking being that evolved from a lesser species. God created the animals before he created man (from Genesis). Same is true with evolution - go figure, science and religion start to meet.

God created man from the dust, and woman from man's rib - a Bible parable that illustrates 5000 year old understanding of man's surroundings. I believe in God, but also realize that the Bible was written by fallible men, not by God - though it may have been inspired by God.

Answer 5

Mammals belong to a group of amniotes called the synapsids traditionally described as 'mammal-like reptiles'

Answer 6

Here is the chain of fossils.

1. Sphenacodon (late Pennsylvanian to early Permian, about 270 million years ago (Mya)). Lower jaw is made of multiple bones; the jaw hinge is fully reptilian. No eardrum.
2. Biarmosuchia (late Permian). One of the earliest therapsids. Jaw hinge is more mammalian. Upper jaw is fixed. Hindlimbs are more upright.
3. Procynosuchus (latest Permian). A primitive cynodont, a group of mammal-like therapsids. Most of the lower jaw bones are grouped in a small complex near the jaw hinge.
4. Thrinaxodon (early Triassic). A more advanced cynodont. An eardrum has developed in the lower jaw, allowing it to hear airborne sound. Its quadrate and articular jaw bones could vibrate freely, allowing them to function for sound transmission while still functioning as jaw bones. All four legs are fully upright.
5. Probainognathus (mid-Triassic, about 235 Mya). It has two jaw joints: mammalian and reptilian (White 2002a).
6. Diarthrognathus (early Jurassic, 209 Mya). An advanced cynodont. It still has a double jaw joint, but the reptilian joint functions almost entirely for hearing.
7. Morganucodon (early Jurassic, about 220 Mya). It still has a remnant of the reptilian jaw joint (Kermack et al. 1981).
8. Hadrocodium (early Jurassic). Its middle ear bones have moved from the jaw to the cranium (Luo et al. 2001; White 2002b).

Answer 7

It seems that lil snipe is merely regurgitating the bs he has been told, and has never actually read anything on evolution because no evolutionary biologist has ever said that man evolved from ape.

Answer 8

I can see a snake tail that hardens, on a mammal.

Answer 9

Evolutionist aren't too bright. I wonder how many of them see apes or monkeys in the zoo and think, she could be my ancestor for I have come into being from his/her loins...

I'm going to start calling evolutionist ape-babies since that's where they think they come from :D.

Answer 10

It's called go to Wikipedia.