If the evolution theory was right,there must be creature that in the intermediate stage,but where?

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If the evolution theory was right,there must be creature that in the intermediate stage,but where?

Answer 1

You're actually right! We should see intermediate species. And we do have evidence of such creatures in the fossil records. But it must be noted that the fossil record is an extremely small percentage of what actually existed years and years ago. This is because conditions need to be very specific in order to preserve the remains of animals of the past, and these are very rare indeed.

If you're looking for living breathing evidence, we are surrounded by them! Speciation is happening all the time, albeit it might not be as evident. Changes in behaviour, and physical traits are very slow, but are noticable. Changes in beak length and thickness of birds can be observed with changing climate patterns, and choices in when to reproduce also vary with changing climate patterns and availability of food. If these changes become 'popular' then some would argue that a new species has arisen! In fact ecologists often have a hard time deciding when speciation has occured since these changes are very minute, but none the less significant.

You can represent speciation in genetic make up. If two individuals of birds are very similar physiologically, but have significant genetic differences, are these two individuals different species or the same species? These are the kinds of things ecologist debate. So there are plenty of "intermediate stages" in the present and in the past!

Answer 2

Everything alive today is effectively an intermediate species between what it descended from and, barring extinction, what its descendants will become in the future. What we currently see as extant species are not "end points" of evolution, just a "snapshot" of an ongoing process. If you're talking about the fossil record, the same holds true - everything (except for something that was the last of its evolutionary branch) would be an intermediate between its ancestors and successors. Fossils showing intermediate forms have been found for many types of animal, including tetrapods, reptiles, whales, hominids and more.

Answer 3

yamnjr,

for one, there is no RNA in the sperm,

so the mechanism would only work on the mother's side of one's ancestors.

But on the whole,

your idea is utter bulls**t,

and doesn't stand to test.

I recommend you don't take your idea to people who actually studied the subject,

instead of pulling stuff out of their ***,

or you'll be laughed at so hard

you'll probably be deafened by it.

Answer 4

Every single species is *BY DEFINITION* an intermediate stage between an ancestor and a descendant.

So these "intermediate stages" are everywhere.

Creationism, however, is the bizarre inability to see them.

Answer 5

The Galapagos Islands!!!....oh wait, that would be an advance species, you want something thats not fully evolved, right? So to answer your question, i dont know.

Answer 6

Frozz is right.. I agree with him..  

Answer 7

All species are an "intermediate stage".

The kangaroos of today are an intermediate between what kangaroos were like a million years ago, and what they will evolve into in a million years from now.

In the fossil record, there are many examples of "transitional forms". Here are some lists of examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tra...

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-tran...

Answer 8

evolution takes millions of years so we cant just look at a certain species and say 'o that is going to turn into this' all species alive today have taken millions and millions of years to evolve from what they once were into what they are now. so i guess u can say that everything alive now is the intermediate stage, because in millions of years time the world will once again change, and they will evolve into new species.

Answer 9

well, compared to us, apes

Answer 10

Evolution is a process. If you believe in evolution, then every species has an intermediate stage. In order to evolve, you have to have a disruption in the DNA creating a change in phenotype. Gradually, that radical change will become normal because that feature will be such an advantage to survial.

Basically, species with "improved" genes like freaks who can jump 41" or have mensa like IQs would be your intermediates, given the idea that your survive better if you jump really high (NBA) or are really really smart (NASA).

Answer 11

Intermediate stage of what species?  You'll have to be more specific.

Answer 12

Every creature is an intermediate stage of another creature because every species is always evolving. I have no idea what specifically your question was about.

Answer 13

I think you're referring to transitional species.  Of course, all transitional species are extinct.  There are more than nine hundred known transitional species that have been found so far.  Just research it on the web a little.

There's this awful thought by people who don't fully understand evolution, that they should be able to literally see mankind now, and what it was like a million years ago, five million, ten million etc.  Contrary to evolution denouncers who continually assert that "we didn't evolve from an ape", evolution doesn't teach us that.  An ape is a modern species; it is just as modern as you or I.  What evolution teaches us, is that both the ape and the human are cousins and evolved from a common ancestor, from which, at some point in history, we broke off from in terms of our DNA sequence.  The ancestor, however, is now extinct.

Hope that helped.

Answer 14

Click the below links for more information on intermediate species.

For list of transitional fossils:

http://www.answers.com/list%20of%20trans...

For evolution of Whales:

http://www.answers.com/evolution%20of%20...

For evolution of Birds:

http://www.answers.com/evolution%20of%20...

For evolution of the horse:

http://www.answers.com/topic/evolution-o...

For human evolution:

http://www.answers.com/topic/human-evolu...

For list of notable fossils:

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-fos...

or search for the following species in www.answers.com

* Fish to Amphibians

o Tiktaalik roseae

o Osteolepis

o Eusthenopteron

o Panderichthys

o Elginerpeton

o Obruchevichthys

o Hynerpeton

o Tulerpeton

o Acanthostega

o Ichthyostega

o Pederpes finneyae

o Eryops

* Amphibians to Amniotes (early reptiles)

o Proterogyrinus

o Limnoscelis

o Tseajaia

o Solenodonsaurus

o Hylonomus

o Paleothyris

* Synapsid (mammal-like "reptiles") to mammals

o Protoclepsydrops

o Clepsydrops

o Dimetrodon

o Procynosuchus

o Thrinaxodon

o Yanoconodon

* Diapsid reptiles to birds

o Yixianosaurus

o Pedopenna

o Archeopteryx

o Changchengornis

o Confuciusornis

o Ichthyornis

* Evolution of whales

o Pakicetus

o Ambulocetus

o Kutchicetus

o Artiocetus

o Dorudon

o Basilosaurus

o Eurhinodelphis

o Mammalodon

* Evolution of the horse

o Hyracotherium

o Mesohippus

o Parahippus

o Merychippus

o Pliohippus

o Equus

* Non-human apes to modern humans

o Pierolapithecus catalaunicus

o Ardipithecus

o Australopithecus

o Homo rudolfensis

o Homo habilis

o Homo erectus

FYI, all the living things we see around us are intermediate/transitional forms, since everything is in the process of changing and none are in a fully developed form.

Secretsauce is absolutely right.. "Every single species is *BY DEFINITION* an intermediate stage between an ancestor and a descendant."

Answer 15

find any fossil in the ground that is millions of years old.

Whatever ever creature it belonged to wont be the exact same now as it was back then

But if you are talking about humans, well there is homo erectus among others.

Answer 16

There is no true proof of transitional species. And right now there is only speculation based on animals believed to have come before and after. Not to mention there should even be transitional species of transitional species of transitional species.... and so on if evolution were true. And to think that most of these intermediate species would be dead is ridiculous. We should see a whole lot more. Billions of years is enough time to see a whole lot more.  Because evolution is based on accidents that cause an organism to reproduce more because they either survive better or they reproduce more. And a beneficial mutation can only happen on a small scale, like an extra thumb that just so happened to help you survive in the given circumstances of your life. And then over time some of your children would have that mutation while others would not. And likely it would have to help tremendously, almost being a neccessity or the mutation would be obscured by the amount of other genes that don't carry the mutation. And any mutation that has been observed thus far has only hindered or been useless to the organism. Adaptation is different  then mutation.

The only way I can see that they are going to be able to explain how this is, and how it seems some species made leaps is RNA. RNA is like DNA in that it can determine some traits, but unlike DNA, RNA remembers things that changed in the person before and passes them onto the offspring. RNA it seems to me would be the only way to explain these leaps and perhaps why there isn't as many transitional species as there should be. I think it's ridiculous to discount God because there are so many holes in the big bang and evolutional theories. We don't see them because it seems people have just had blinders thrown on thier eyes and don't even realize it. I mean I can point out an obvious holes in evolution and even point out obvious evidence of God, yet the person seems that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. Whatever, you can believe what you want, but when you die, it's your soul not mine. As for me, I will see facts and the fact evolution is taught like scientific law when it obviously is nowhere close to that is another piece that makes me realize more is going on here then meets the eye.