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114 Origin of the Mammals

There is no struc tur al dif fer ence be tween mam mal fos sils dat ing back tens of mil -
lions of years ex hib it ed in nat u ral his to ry mu se ums and spec i mens alive to day.
Moreover, these fos sils ap pear sud den ly in the Earth's stra ta, with no links to ear li -
er spe cies.

on each side. Another fun da men tal un ans wered.
dif fer ence is that in the mid dle ears Indeed, no in ter me di ate form
of all mam mals, there are three small that could link rep tiles to mam mals
bones: the so-called an vil, ham mer has ev er been found. That ex plains
and stir rup. In con trast, in the mid - why the ev o lu tion ist pa le on tol o gist
dle ear of all rep tiles, there is but a Roger Lewin was forced to say, "The
sin gle bone. tran si tion to the first mam mal . . . is
Evolutionists main tain that the still an enig ma." 119
rep tiles' jaw and ear grad u al ly George Gaylord Simpson, one of
evolved in to the mam mal i an jaw the 20th cen tu ry's most em i nent au -
and ear. Of course, the ques tion of thor i ties on ev o lu tion and one of the
how this came about goes un ans - founders of neo-Darwinist the o ry,
wered. How did an ear con sist ing of makes an as ton ish ing con fes sion
one bone turn in to one con sist ing of from the ev o lu tion ist point of view:
three? And how did the sense of The most puz zling event in the his to ry
hear ing con tin ue dur ing this proc - of life on earth is the change from the
ess? These oth er ques tions al so go Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles, to the

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