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- Fossil Record Overview - Missing Transitional Forms - A list of some of the gaps, or missing transitional forms, in the fossil record that are used to support a creationist's view of origins.
- Transitional Fossils - A response to the argument that there are no transitional fossils with a list of many such transitions.
- Transitional Fossils of Hominid Skulls - A reprint of a Time magazine article showing the use of transitional fossils with various skulls along with the current best educated guess as to where they fit on the tree of primate descent.
- Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ - A large, but by no means complete, list of transitional fossils that are known. This list is used to counter the common creationist idea that there are no intermediates in the fossil record.
- The Links Are Missing - This chapter of a book criticizes the book, "The Teaching of Evolution," by demonstrating the lack of intermediate or transitional forms suggested by Darwinian evolution.
- Taxonomy, Transitional Forms, and the Fossil Record - This article by Keith B. Miller suggests that the fossil record provides good evidence for the large-scale patterns and trends in evolutionary history.
- Punctuated Equilibrium and Patterns from the Fossil Record - This site suggests that of thousands of species in the fossil record, only a few are claimed to be transitional forms.
- Transitional Fossils FAQ - The fossils mentioned in this list are from species and genuses thought to represent transitions from one vertebrate group to another.
- On Creation Science and "Transitional Fossils" - This article addresses a mantra by creationists that "there are no transitional fossils". This oft-repeated fallacy does not agree with what paleontologists actually know.
- Transition Fossils? - This site claims that evidence of transition is rare and limited to variation within kinds, using the argument that the trunk and main branches of the evolutionary tree are perpetually missing from the fossil record.
Wikipedia Articles
- Transitional fossil - Transitional fossils are the fossilized remains of transitional forms of life that illustrate an evolutionary transition. They can be identified by their retention of certain primitive (plesiomorphic) traits in comparison with their more derived relatives, as they are defined in the study of cladistics.
- List of transitional fossils - This is a very tentative list of vertebrate transitional fossils (fossil remains of a creature that exhibits primitive traits in comparison with more derived life-forms to which it is related). An ideal list would only recursively include 'true' transitionals, i.
- Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles - The evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles, that is, of the bones in the middle ear, from the jaw bones of reptiles is one of the most well-documented and important evolutionary events, demonstrating both numerous transitional forms as well as an excellent example of exaptation, the re-purposing of existing structures during evolution.
- Structure Plan - In United Kingdom Planning Law a Structure Plan is an old-style development plan, which sets out strategic planning policies and forms the basis for detailed policies in Local Plans. These plans will continue to operate for a time after the commencement of the new development plan system, due to transitional provisions under planning reform.