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Species’. “Why, if species have descended from other
species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see

innumerable transitional forms? … But, as by this
theory innumerable transitional forms must have ex-
isted, why do we not find them embedded in count-
less numbers in the crust of the earth?… But in the

intermediate region, having intermediate conditions
of life, why do we not now find closely-linking inter-
mediate varieties? This difficulty for a long time
quite confounded me.” (Charles Darwin, The Origin of
Species, pp. 172-280)
In Darwin’s day, not one fossil was found that

validated this theory. But Darwin, maintained that in
years to come, with new fossils that will be discov-
ered, lost transitional forms would certainly be re-
vealed. But more than 150 years have passed since

Darwin made this statement. In this period science

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