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...Tiktaalik for the steps that backboned animals took to crawl out of the sea in the first place. Many who reject evolution in favor of divine creation claim that the fossil record doesn't contain the so-called transitional species anticipated by Darwin's theory. This ancient, walking fish is yet more evidence that such an argument is simply wrong; all sorts of missing links preserved in exquisite detail have been and will be discovered...
...Harvard paleontologist has discovered a fossil that represents evidence for the evolutionary transition of fish from water to land—a find some experts are calling an evolutionary missing link...
...fossil, called Tiktaalik roseae, was found in rocks from the Devonian Age, which date back 375 million years. The organism’s gills identify it as a fish, but it lacks the piscatorial characteristic of a neck that is connected to the shoulder girdle, Jenkins said. The fish’s front fin contains identifiable wrist bones and features that resemble fingers, he added...
...fills a gap in our understanding,” Jenkins said. “We knew about lobed-fin fish, we knew about early tetrapods, but how do you turn lobed-fin fish into tetrapods? This fish is beginning to turn into a tetrapod, giving us real insight on anatomical evolutionary transformation...
...target and attract underrepresented and lower-income students—people for whom HFAI is currently tailor-made. Fitzsimmons and the successors of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean Kirby cannot stop there, however. If Summers truly believes that “the larger the lake you fish in, the bigger fish you will catch,” then he should ensure that Harvard’s financial aid hook is baited with middle-income lures as well. The problem, as I alluded to before, is that these lures will be very expensive because there are so many more...