Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
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He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
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Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.
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Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.
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Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.
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