Why cant everyone accept this? What is the problem?
Michael
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From: "Keith B Miller" <kbmill@ksu.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Fish/Tetrapod transition: was A matter of trust?
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> >>I also requested evidence of the fact that such transitions have been
> >>found in the fossil record.
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> The fossil evidence for this transition is really quite good.
Transitional
> fossil specimens cause the boundaries between the groups to become
blurred.
> Often the definitions of the higher taxonomic groups have to be
> reconsidered as a result. The earliest tetrapods were aquatic,
> gill-breathing animals. The discovery of numerous new early tetrapods has
> shown that limbs evolved not for terrestrial locomotion, but for
> maneuvering in shallow freshwater environments.
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> Ahlberg, P.E. and Milner, A.R., 1994, The origin and early diversification
> of tetrapods: Nature, vol. 358, p.507-514.
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> Ahlberg, P.E., 1995, Elginerpeton pancheni and the earliest tetrapod
clade:
> Nature, vol. 373, p.420-425.
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> Laurin, M., Girondot, M., and de Ricqles, A., 2000, Early tetrapod
> evolution: TREE, vol 15, no. 3., p.118-123.
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> Clack, J.A., 1998, A new early Carboniferous tetrapod with a melange of
> crown-group characters: Nature, vol. 394, p.66-69.
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> Coates, M.I., and Clack, J.A., 1991, Fish-like gills and breathing in the
> earliest known tetrapod: Nature, vol. 352, p.234-236.
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> Carroll, R.L., 1997, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution:
> Cambridge Univ. Press, 448p.
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> Zimmer, Carl, 1998, At the Water's Edge: Touchstone, 290p. (This is an
> excellent popular account of the discovery of fossil transitions in the
> origin of tetrapods and the origin of whales.)
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> There is much more literature than this. This is just what I had
> immeditately on hand.
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> Keith B. Miller
> Department of Geology
> Kansas State University
> Manhattan, KS 66506
> kbmill@ksu.edu
> http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~kbmill/
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