The case most frequently insisted on by palæontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down, according to Agassiz, in the Chalk period.
The ontologists contemplate the matter from another entirely diverse side, reasoning with equal evidence in this form.
The case most frequently insisted on by palæontologists of the apparently sudden appearance of a whole group of species, is that of the teleostean fishes, low down in the Chalk period.
It is notorious on what excessively slight differences many palæontologists have founded their species; and they do this the more readily if the specimens come from different sub-stages of the same formation.
The same remark applies to the bulk of speculation as to the factors of evolution, with the exception of the contributions made to evolution theory by the palæontologists by profession, such as Cope.
The most valuable contribution made by palæontologists to morphology and to the theory of evolution arose out of the careful and methodical study of the actual succession of fossil forms as exemplified in limited but richly represented groups.
The neo-Lamarckian school of American palæontologists were also in sympathy with the memory idea, and this was expressed most clearly perhaps by Cope.
In conclusion, I need scarcely say that I do not share in the doubts expressed by some British palæontologists as to the distinctness of the Devonian and Carboniferous floras.
The sudden appearance of new kinds of animals is another fact which Palæontologists urge against the doctrine of evolution.
Palæontologists tell us that Trilobites abounded from the primordial age down to the Carboniferous period, that is, as they suppose, through millions of years.
But palA|ontologists have sharp eyes, and it has not escaped them that certain microscopic tooth-like bodies are somewhat widely distributed in the older rocks.
In conclusion of this review, can we formulate a few of the general laws, or perhaps I had better call them the general conclusions respecting life, in which all palA|ontologists may agree?
When once, namely, a generalisation has been established that certain fossils occur in strata of a certain age, palæontologists are apt to infer that all beds containing similar fossils must be of the same age.
Thirdly, the mere fact of fossils being found in beds which are known by physical evidence to be of different ages, has commonly led palæontologists to describe them as different species.
In point of fact, ontologists are obliged to admit that the process of the act of the cognition of the infinite is historically the same in substance with that which we have just explained.
In the first flush of enthusiasm for Darwinism, zoölogists and palæontologists allowed their zeal to outrun discretion in the formation of family trees.
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