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Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index] For those of
you who believe recent molecular evidence suggesting early
mammalian ordinal divergence is not a challenge to the claimed
competence of our current fossil record, i.e., that genetic
changes may lead to few morphological changes (at least as
recognizable from bones) and that we have already found the
bones of these genetically radical creatures, here are Hedges'
beliefs. The quote is from an on-line Science news service.
>Very few fossils resembling modern mammals or other vertebrates
have been >found in rocks formed during the Cretaceous period,
says Hedges, partly >because paleontologists hardly ever look
for mammals in rocks that old. >"There has not been enough
convincing evidence until now for >paleontologists to invest
their time and money looking for mammal >in a time before >the
dinosaurs became extinct," Hedges says. In addition, many
scientists >believe that a large number of species s