Page 210 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

Fossilized plants
millions of year old
and examples of
these fossils living
today are proof
that these plants
never underwent
any evolution.
These species have
remained un-
changed for mil-
lions of years.

Above, Pecopteris miltani, a
plant which lived 290 to 365 mil-
These plants, which
lion years ago. A similar pre-
have come down to
sent-day plant called Dryopteris
the present un-
filix-mas.
changed after hun-
dreds of millions of
years are among the
most important
pieces of evidence
refuting the theory
of evolution.

A 350-million-year-
old fossil of the
marsh plant
Asterophyllites gran-
dis and a similar pre-
sent-day plant.

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