The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.


Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?, Paleobiology, January 1980 (p. 127)

Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to ...

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to ...

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to ...

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to ...