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A clock running fast could explain Darwin’s fossil record gaps

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
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The Cambridge encyclopedia of Darwin and evolutionary thought / edited by Michael Ruse

1. Origins and the Greeks / Jeremy Kirby -- 2. Evolution before Darwin / Michael Ruse -- 3. Charles Darwin's geology : the root of his philosophy of the earth / David Norman -- 4. Looking back with ...
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How South Florida lizards are helping to reshape Darwin’s theory of evolution

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

A speeding clock could solve Darwin’s mystery of gaps in animal fossil records

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...