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Roderick has been in the paper business since 1978 and has watched over the evolution of plastic lids. Originally, a lid was a single piece of plastic, he says. Customers would tear away a piece of the plastic in order to drink the beverage. There were no tear lines or...
The pattern of evolution suggests the ant family tree began to split with the advent of flowering plants, 100 million years ago, as ants adapted to newly-emergent environments.
Together, these fossils have overturned the old picture of the fish-tetrapod transition, which conjured up the image of creatures like the modern lungfish crawling out of water onto land. That picture certainly didn't fit Acanthostega, whose short, flimsy legs were ill equipped for terrestrial locomotion. Rather, according to...
None of that comes as a surprise to most biologists. Even the scientists who invoke "intelligent design" to explain life's diversity concede that transitional creatures have been showing up in the fossil record for quite some time. "The argument that there are no transitional forms," says Kenneth Miller, a...
But the lack of missing links is still part of the antievolution rhetoric circulating on the Internet. "Some people will never be convinced," says paleontologist Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (see box). "But discoveries like this are valuable because...