Transitions Of Reptiles To Mammals
Beginning of paper
A long long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, was a little blue
planet called Earth, and on this world not a single mammal lived. However a lot
of time has past since then and we now have lots of furry creatures that are
collectively called mammals. How did they get their? Where did they ....
Middle of paper
.... certain genus or family, and the whole sequence often covers a span of
tens of millions of years. A lineage like this shows obvious intermediates for
every major structural change, and the fossils occur roughly (but often not
exactly) in the expected order. However, usually there are still gaps between
each of the groups. Sometimes the individual specimens are not thought to be
directly ancestral to the next-youngest fossils (e.g. they may be "cousins"" or
"uncles" rather than "parent ....
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