Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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| Quote (forastero @ Nov. 03 2011,12:59) | | Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Nov. 03 2011,08:04) | | Quote (forastero @ Nov. 03 2011,03:09) | | Quote (JohnW @ Nov. 03 2011,01:35) | | Quote (forastero @ Nov. 02 2011,22:49) | | Charles Darwin once said " We do not know the ancestors of the Vendian faunas well, and like the Cambrian biota it appeared suddenly in a "complete state" . |
Where and when did he say this? |
My library is all packed up at the moment up but I am pretty sure you will find your answer in the following
Mikhail Fedonkin, "Vendian body fossils and trace fossils," in S. Bengston, ed., Early Life on Earth. Nobel Symposium No. 84 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), pp. 370-388; p. 388. |
Come now, you don't really expect us to think you read something that requires a trip to the library?
The odds are that you grabbed both the hearsay and the reference from this site.
ETA: Forgot to mention that you couldn't even get that much right. Here's what the page said:
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[...] Commenting on the puzzling status of the Ediacaran (Vendian) fossils, the Russian paleontologist Mikhail Fedonkin writes:
We are now in the situation Charles Darwin found himself in about 150 years ago. He was puzzled by the absence of the ancestors of the Cambrian invertebrates, considering this fact as a strong argument against his theory of gradualistic evolution of species. We do not know the ancestors of the Vendian fauna as well, and like the Cambrian biota it appeared suddenly in a "complete state."5
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Mistaking something explicitly attributed to Fedonkin as something Darwin wrote seems about your speed. |
I actually own the book and will dig it out just for you |
Color me curious... how would "digging out" Fedonkin's book help you with the fact that you claimed Charles Darwin wrote something that he did not write?
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