The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.  ~ Stephen Jay Gould 

Strickberger's Evolution  2008  p.480   GBS

Fossils and Evolution  1999  p.5   GBS

See also: Bias Illustrations

See also: What is the Evidence?

See also: Seeing Ghosts in the Bushes