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While much is made of the “incomplete fossil record” - why is it that looking at the Cambrian fossils, there are tons of fossils but virtually no fossils of any living animals? And when you look at the fossils of the Jurassic, there are tons of fossils, but virtually nothing immediately recognizable from the past Cambrian and, again, virtually nothing that immediately resembles presently living organisms? And when you come forward in time again to, say, the Miocene, there are tons of fossils, bearing little resemblance to the either the Cambrian or Jurassic? Why is our planet fully populated presently, yet the further back you go in the fossil record, the less all organisms have in common with living ones?

2007-03-27 09:13:21 · 9 answers · asked by Blueryno 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

9 answers

I can't wait to hear what they say.

Wow, people totally misread you.

2007-03-27 09:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Pre-Cambrian Fossils Have been Found
Its been a while since I read THE BURGESS SHALE, but it is an educational extended essay by all accounts. I Have Wonderful Life by Gould as Well, but I have not read it yet....
Stephen Jay Gould has some very Good Essays on all aspects of Science, and even if you do not agree with his assumptions, he covers some amazing ground, especially his piece on Neotetic features in Mammals... I forget which collection that was in , just right now.

2007-03-27 16:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by Mictlan_KISS 6 · 1 0

That's evolution. More accurately, that's life and that's death. There have been a number of mass extinction events. After these events there is a brief scramble to repopulate where adapting to new niches favors survival. This brief period produces the majority of the transitional fossils. During the long period after, survival is based on better adapting to the niche you are in. This is where the majority of fossils of slowly adapting, somewhat stable populations are formed.

2007-03-27 16:30:41 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0 0

"Why is our planet fully populated presently, yet the further back you go in the fossil record, the less all organisms have in common with living ones?"

Welcome to evolution. Just because you don't appreciate the shapes and forms they took doesn't mean the connections are not there. And they share one important thing in common: the ancestors.

ps. since this is just another transitional fossil question (but really badly worded) here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

knock yourself out

2007-03-27 16:16:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I feel you already know the answer but maybe you're missing it. That's evolution

2007-03-27 16:19:00 · answer #5 · answered by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 · 0 0

"Listen, kid, do you want an 'A' in this class or not?"

"My next course will be, 'Why the gay Tyranorsaurus Rex died from Global Warming?'"

2007-03-27 16:25:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/index.htm#evolution

2007-03-27 16:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by aa.gabriel 4 · 0 2

Darwinian, is it not?

2007-03-27 16:18:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Wut? =?

2007-03-27 16:17:13 · answer #9 · answered by Lizzie 2 · 0 0

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