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A fic ti tious Tree of Life
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Anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz:
"most paleontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there
were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational
evolutionary intermediates between documented fossil species. 197
George Gaylord Simpson is professor of zoology at Columbia
University:
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species,
genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of fam-
ilies, appear in the [fossil] record suddenly, and are not led up to by grad-
ual, completely continuous transitional sequences. 198
In the early days of evolutionary paleontology it was assumed that the
