Sentences with phrase «about the fossil record»

And there are a great deal, the reason you've not heard them is because we have only talked about the fossil record for the most part, and nothing else.

Do you know anything about the fossil record, including being able to build a rough timeline for the types of species around all the way back to Anomalocaris, and Haikouichthys.

There have been very few archaeological searches of Borneo, so at the moment we know practically nothing about its fossil record.

Not exact matches

Evolution makes predictions about what we would expect to see in the fossil record, comparative anatomy, genetic sequences, geographical distribution of species, etc., and these predictions have been verified many times over.

If you believe in special creation, then you are uninformed about genetics, development, anatomy, and the fossil record.

You are so prepared to believe all of this without any physical proof and yet you are happy to discount a physical, observable, analyzable fossil record that shows a consistent and worldwide evolution of life on Earth dating back to about 3,500,000,000 years ago.

«Despite the tremendous increase in geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it was when Darwin was writing the Origin.»

oh and don't worry about those pesky gaps in the fossil record since we now have enough «evidence» in transitional species fossil records to cover it.

We know about them through the fossil records including little pieces of bone and the imprint of plants in rock, etc..

I was in my early twenties when I first encountered a fossil record that didn't match what I'd been taught in Sunday school about the «myth» of evolutionary theory.

Second — your comment: The fossil record shows a consistent and worldwide evolution of life on Earth dating back to about 3,500,000,000 years ago.

Creationists are always asking about «missing links» and the incompleteness of the fossil record ti support thier fantasies.

Random pictures drawn to bone fragments to prove Darwin's IDEAS about mutation and unproven changes over time based on an inconsistent fossil record?

This is true whether we're talking about Lenski's E.coli, the progressive fossil record, the Coconino sandstones, etc, etc..

[37] Fletcher explained «Natural selection is in fact a chemical process as well as a biological process, and it was operating for about half a billion years before the earliest cellular life forms appear in the fossil record.»

One of the arguments often put about for a disbelief in Darwinian evolution is the absence in the fossil record of species «intermediate» between others.

This week I recorded and watched the History Channel documentary, «The Link,» which featured the recent scientific findings surrounding a miraculously intact primate fossil, estimated to be about 47 - million years old.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

The fossil record shows a consistent and worldwide evolution of life on Earth dating back to about 3,500,000,000 years ago.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

We know about mistakes in the fossil record because scientists realize their mistakes, make them public, then exclude them from the evidence.

We don't know much about phallus evolution (external genitalia generally don't mineralize, so the fossil record is of little help), but we can compare the expression of phallus genes from organism to organism.

That's consistent with the fossil record, which shows glyptodonts evolved from medium - sized forms (about 80 kilograms) to become true megafauna in the Pleistocene (reaching 2,000 kilograms) before their disappearance at the end of the last ice age.

Molecular dating suggests that glyptodonts diverged no earlier than about 35 million years ago, the researchers report, in good agreement with their known fossil record.

«As the fossil record improves it's becoming more the case that the major dinosaur groups were just about everywhere,» says Rich.

However, while rangeomorphs were highly suited to their Ediacaran environment, conditions in the oceans continued to change and from about 541 million years ago the «Cambrian Explosion» began — a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.

The team also continued filling in Romer's Gap, a span in the fossil record from about 335 million to 360 million years ago that had long vexed paleontologists.

Though Bigfoot hunters may cling to hope, Earth's largest known ape disappeared from the fossil record about 100,000 years ago.

Instead, the fossil record indicates they vanished during the Earth's glacial - interglacial transition, which occurred about 12,000 years ago and led to much warmer conditions and the start of the current Holocene period.

Mammal species have a mean lifetime in the fossil record of about 3 million years.

They lived in Europe and western Asia, as far east as southern Siberia and as far south as the Middle East (see map), before disappearing from the fossil record about 30,000 years ago.

The animal, called Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis, lived during the Cambrian «explosion», a period of rapid evolutionary development about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first appear in the fossil record.

«Not only do we know a great deal about bird development, but also about the dinosaur - bird transition, which is well - documented by the fossil record.

The previous record - holder for earliest moth - butterfly fossils came from about 130 million years ago, a bit after a major expansion of flowering plants.

Yeakel created a timeline based on existing records from paleontology, archaeology, and art, which picks up about where the fossils leave off and zooms in on a much shorter time scale.

Spores from such plants, which aren't limited to permanently damp environments and therefore may have turned down Earth's thermostat even more than nonvascular plants did, show up in the fossil record about 450 million years ago.

The fossil record and modern genetic analysis suggest that humans and all other living species are descended from bacteria - like microbes that first appeared about 4 billion years ago.

Ediacarans first appear in the fossil record about 600 million years ago.

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

Fossil records show that about 250 million years ago, 90 percent of the species on Earth were snuffed out in an abrupt event that spanned the globe.

«So much of our study of the fossil record is about filling in the gaps in our knowledge of how animals came to look as they do or live where they are, and Diandongosuchus does that for phytosaurs.

Scientists know a good deal about these animals from the fossil record, but newly published results in Historical Biology, gleaned from a long - forgotten specimen recently discovered in the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, are recasting both the size and diets of baby ichthyosaurs.

During the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary innovation about 500 million years ago when most major animal groups emerge in the fossil record, arthropods with hard exoskeletons and jointed limbs first started to appear.

Although the fossil record for the first members of the Homo genus is poor, the earliest definitive H. habilis specimen is about 2.4 million years old.

The fossil record is notoriously stingy in doling out clues about the history of life.

Many of the species that appear during the Cambrian Explosion some 540 million years ago vanish from the fossil record about 40 million years later, which led researchers to believe they died out.

The first full - shelled turtles show up in the fossil record about 205 million years ago.

Previously only a single species of prehistoric octopus had turned up in the fossil record, so the new finds represent an explosion of information about the animals» history.

Fossil records indicate that H. erectus was present in Asia between about 1.8 million and 33,000 years ago, so there could have been an overlap with humans towards the end of its existence.

From fish to monkeys, every kind of vertebrate needs to breathe, eat and move in its environment, so a lot can be inferred about these basically mechanical properties from the bony structures preserved in the fossil record.