if all things evolved and therefore would be related, where are the in betweens at?

Answer 1

Well, DUH!! Simple - all things were created - they did *not* evolve!

I just don't have enough faith to believe in the ridiculous theory of evolution!

God bless!!

Answer 2

The answer is that there are way more of them than you think there are. People often seem to have the idea that stretching back into history you would see all of the animals we have now, plus the dinosaurs and some other strange creatures of that time, and that is all of the variety there ever was. In reality extinct species vastly outnumber the ones surviving today. Considering just the mammals, 80% of all of the types of mammals that ever existed are extinct today. Extinct mammal groups include the triconodonts, multituberculates, and paleoryctoids. All of the mammaliforms (a group of animals that was ancestral to the mammals themselves) are extinct. Ancestral to the mammaliforms were the cynodonts, also extinct along with their sister groups, the therocephalids and gorgonopsids. These groups descended from more basal therapsids, which contained several groups, all extinct, and the therapsids descended from basal synapsids, also extinct, which descended from basal tetrapods, also extinct! The line leading to the reptiles has seen similar extinction. And that's just the tetrapods. All other groups suffer the same phenomenon.

So the answer is the "in-betweens" are dead and fossilized. The tree of life that we see is kind of like looking at a dense bush from the outside. We only see the leaves that are on the surface, and if we assume that those are the only leaves there are, we greatly underestimate the diversity that existed.

If you're interested in the many other types of organisms that lived and how each group evolved you can check out a paleontology book. The site below will also give you an idea of the diversity of life.

Answer 3

As one person above indicated, it's a very rare animal that is preserved in a fossil. Ordinarily, it takes hundreds of thousands of creatures for one to become permanently fossilized, millions for one to become fossilized AND still be around today, and billions for us to find one of them.

Yet many intermediates didn't exist in the billions. Evolution through the in-between stages progresses extremely rapidly, but then rests for long periods of time as stable forms, until evolving rapidly again under the selective pressure of some new obstacle to survival. This process of sitting at one form for ages and then rapidly leaping to another form is called punctuated equilibrium

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium :

"Punctuated equilibrium (sometimes referred to as punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology, which posits that evolution amongst sexually reproducing species takes place in rapid bursts, separated by long periods [of "stasis"] in which little change occurs."

Contrast punctuated equilibrium with a smooth transition, sometimes called “phyletic gradualism.” Phyletic gradualism describes the pattern in which evolution has a relatively constant rate both during speciation and at other times. A new species, according to this mistaken assumption, would result from gradual accumulation of many small genetic changes over long periods of geologic time, not from a relatively rapid event follows by a long periods of stasis.

Stasis explains the cockroach not changing over eons. It is already well adapted to a multitude of environments. Mutations are so unlikely to be beneficial in such a situation that they virtually always are evolutionary dead ends for the cockroach in that niche.

That doesn’t mean that new species won't rapidly branch off if a new niche arises or if the cockroach is transplanted to a place that it can survive, but not optimally. In such cases, speciation may occur, but it doesn’t take any of the older model with it, just the luckiest mutants and their progeny leaving a large contingent of the ancestor behind. Note that this can’t happen if the mutants have to compete with the perfected model, only if they find a new niche not open to their ancestors where they can thrive.

So, the odds of finding a "tweener" are very slim. It would be like finding a bunch of baby spiders in an empty egg carton. Assume that spiders could occasionally climb the barrier between egg spaces, but quickly fell into one of the egg spaces where they remained most of the time. Now open the egg carton, and you'll see spiders in most spaces, most in the one that they were born in, and fewer in the spaces farther away from the original one. But there might be none of them on the ridges between spaces at any given time.

Now, suppose you had a bird’s-eye view of all of this, from a distance, and couldn't see the barriers and depressions, just clusters of baby spiders separated from each other on a white background. You might think that they were put in the carton that way.

But then I tell you, no, they started together and wandered apart over time. Then you ask why the spiders aren't spread out evenly, why the clusters don’t connect and even out. Same problem. They spend a long time in the holes and a very short time between, so you're unlikely to find a tweener.

Answer 4

The process of fossilization requires recise conditions in order to take place at all; the vast majority of organic matter decomposes within a few weeks or years. So fossils are incredibly rare. We're lucky to have any at all.

Your question is a little like being taken into a very special room in the British Museum and being shown page in Shakespeare's own handwriting. A fragment of a play, one of very pages like it in the world.

And then complaining because they don't have the full set.

Answer 5

The theory of natural selection explains that the species that are not able to adapt to changing conditions die out.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

that is the weakness of the theory of evolution.
there is never any proof that those things in between ever existed.
evolution creates an imaginary connection between two similar species. then postulates some missing link in between.

just like kids looking up at the stars use imaginary lines to connect the stars to together to form the image of some common object. like a bull or a hunter.

Answer 8

they did not survive