Ep. 484: Evolution with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The Evolution of Fossils
Every fossil or new animal that's discovered is always given a linnaeon binomial name. When a fossil is actually intermediate between two species or two genera on the evolutionary view there must be such fossils. We are not allowed by our conventions of nomenclature to give it an intermediate name. There's no machinery in language to give a name that is intermediate between say Australopithecus afarensis and homohabilus. The next chapter I'm just going to read the beginning of the irascible genius JBS Haldane who did so much else besides being one of the architects of neodarwinism. John Maynard Smith is sadly not available to confirm
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