Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
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Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.George G. Simpson
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
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Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
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Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.
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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned.
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