Nonlin's Case Against Common Descent

[Patrick]

@swamidass

Have you read the story yet? It is a story of hypothesis testing. They prospectively predicted what an unknown transition fossil would look like, and then they found it.

In the layer of rock deposited at the time the transition was occurring. Shuban determined the time period of the transition and then looked for exposed rock of that age and found it in Canada. Low and behold, there was Tiktallik

Finding Tiktaalik: Neil Shubin on the Evolutionary Step from Sea to Land