Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Species" Manuscript (2014)

Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by amilios on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:29PM (#43708770)

Can you elaborate on this? My understanding is that evolution (to be precise, we're presumably referring to natural selection) has been proven again and again and that there is a clear scientific consensus around it, and I'm not familiar with any particular large gaps in the theory.

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Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by glacier5674 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:52PM (#43711608)

I'm guessing it's passages like this one regarding transitional forms:

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

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Re:Darwin's Children Drew All over the "On the Origin of Spe... by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:45PM (#43712920)

Fun fact: Archaeopteryx - a transitional fossil between dinosaurs and birds - was discovered two years after Origin of Species.

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