| | However, in 1994, he wrote, | | However, in 1994, he wrote, |
| − | {{QuoteBox|The supposed lack of intermediary forms in the fossil record remains the fundamental canard of current antievolutionists. Such transitional forms are scarce, to be sure, and for two sets of reasons - geological (the gappiness of the fossil record) and biological (the episodic nature of evolutionary change, including patterns of punctuated equilibrium and transition within small populations of limited geological extent). But paleontologists have discovered several superb examples of intermediary forms and sequences, more than enough to convince any fair-minded skeptic about the reality of life's physical geneology.<ref>Quoted in Hunt, Kathleen, [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part2c.html#conclusion Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ, part 2C] (Conclusion).</ref>}} | + | {{QuoteBox|The supposed lack of intermediary forms in the fossil record remains the fundamental canard of current antievolutionists. Such transitional forms are scarce, to be sure, and for two sets of reasons - geological (the gappiness of the fossil record) and biological (the episodic nature of evolutionary change, including patterns of punctuated equilibrium and transition within small populations of limited geological extenet(sic)). But paleontologists have discovered several superb examples of intermediary forms and sequences, more than enough to convince any fair-minded skeptic about the reality of life's physical geneology.<ref>Quoted in Hunt, Kathleen, [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part2c.html#conclusion Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ, part 2C] (Conclusion).</ref>}} |