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of ver te brates, Professor Kuru once The the o ry of ev o lu tion hy poth e -
again has to ad mit that no ev i dence siz es that Chordata such as Pikaia
is avail a ble at all: "The views re gard - grad u al ly turned in to fish. However,
ing the or i gin and ev o lu tion of the just as there is no in ter me di ate form
Chordata ex pressed above have al - to sup port the idea of the ev o lu tion
ways been treat ed with sus pi cion, of Chordata, so there are none to
since they are not based on a fos sil sup port that of the ev o lu tion of fish.
record." 143 On the con tra ry, all the dif fer ent cat -
Evolutionist bi ol o gists some - e go ries of fish ap pear sud den ly in
times of fer the fol low ing sort of ra - the fos sil record and with no an ces -
tion ale: There is no fos sil record re - tors pre ce ding them. There are mil -
gard ing the or i gin of the Chordata lions of in ver te brate fos sils, but no -
and oth er ver te brates be cause in ver - body has ev er found a sin gle in ter -
te brates are soft-tis sued and there - me di ate-form fos sil. Fish dat ing
fore leave no fos sil tra ces be hind. back to the Cambrian Period, es pe -
But in fact, there are many fos sil in - cial ly those dis cov ered in China
ver te brate re mains. All the liv ing such as Haikouichthys and
things from the Cambrian Period are Myllokunmingia, in val i date ev o lu -
in ver te brates, and they have left tens tion ist claims of grad u al de vel op -
of thou sands of fos sils be hind them. ment. Philippe Janvier, a pal ae on tol -
Many fos sils of soft-tis sued crea - o gist from the Museum of Natural
tures have been found in the Burgess History in Paris, states that these life
Shale bed in Canada; sci en tists think forms found in China were "def i -
that in re gions such as Burgess Shale nite ly ver te brates" and sets
liv ing things were quick ly cov ered out their im por tance:
in lay ers of mud with low ox y gen It's im por tant
con tent and thus fos sil ized with out
their soft tis sues hav ing bro ken
down. 144

The con jec tur al
anat o my of Pikaia,
the old est known
chor date

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