The successive transitional forms presented between the cautious neatness of youth and bold freedom of maturity offer a delightful study.
在青年的谨慎整洁和成熟的大胆自由之间呈现的连续过渡形式提供了令人愉快的研究。
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Transitional form
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加州的群山(上) The successive transitional forms presented between the cautious neatness of youth and bold freedom of maturity offer a delightful study. 在青年的谨慎整洁和成熟的大胆自由之间呈现的连续过渡形式提供了令人愉快的研究。 PBS地球-动物趣闻 The fossil record is full of transitional forms, like Gobisaurus, that can help us solve evolutionary mysteries like this, if we just think to ask the right questions. 化石记录中充满了过渡形式,例如戈壁龙,如果我们想问正确的问题,它们可以帮助我们解开这样的进化之谜。 SciShow 合集 The Jebel Irhoud fossils suggest a transitional form, in which humans evolved small faces early or even kept them from an archaic ancestor, and didn’t get the modern braincase until later. Jebel Irhoud 化石暗示了一种过渡形式,在这种形式中, 人类很早就进化出小脸, 甚至从远古祖先那里保留下来, 直到后来才得到现代脑壳。 阿尔伯塔大学-恐龙古生物学 However, it's a lot less easy when we take in transitional forms, things like Anchiornis and Archaeopteryx and Sapeornis and then suddenly the lines become very blurry and it's hard to define. 然而,当我们采用过渡形式时,它就不那么容易了,比如近鸟龙、始祖鸟和深鸟龙,然后线条突然变得非常模糊,很难定义。
中文百科
过渡化石 Transitional fossil(重定向自Transitional form)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 过渡化石是既保留有其祖先、也保留有其演进出的后代的生命形态的生物化石。 尤其是当其演进出来的生物与其祖先完全不同时,过渡化石在科学研究上的意义就显得更加重大。这种化石暗示着人类只是用自己所认定的生物划分系统强行将一个完整的连续统给割裂开来了而已。因为化石本身的不完整性,通常无法判断一具过渡化石与进化的分歧点有多接近。因此虽然过渡化石场被当做其祖先的模型来进行研究,但并不能假设它们就是后代们的直接祖先。 当1859年达尔文出版《物种起源》时,化石记录本身亦并不为世人所熟知,更勿论过渡化石。因此达尔文曾说过渡化石的缺乏是其理论最大的弱点,但同时他也认为这可以用地质记录数据的缺乏来解释。 实际上后来其反对者也用这“缺失的一环”来攻击达尔文的学说。 然而在《物种起源》出版之后两年就出土了始祖鸟的化石,而这一化石被认为是恐龙向鸟类演进的重要过渡化石。在随后的几百年中,又有更多的过渡化石被人类发现,现在其丰富程度已经足以证实脊椎动物的纲之间都是有关系的。
英语百科
Transitional fossil 过渡化石(重定向自Transitional form)
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group. This is especially important where the descendant group is sharply differentiated by gross anatomy and mode of living from the ancestral group. These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation. Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence. Therefore, it cannot be assumed that transitional fossils are direct ancestors of more recent groups, though they are frequently used as models for such ancestors. |
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