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Overview
- Fossilized Fossil
- Gross anatomy
- Human
- Charles Darwin
- On the Origin of Species
- Descent with modification Evolution
- Natural selection
- Archaeopteryx
- Dinosaurs Dinosaur
- Birds Bird
- Classes Class (biology)
- Vertebrates Vertebrate
- Tetrapods Evolution of tetrapods
- Fish Evolution of fish
- Birds and dinosaurs Origin of birds
- Evolution of mammals
- "mammal-like reptiles" Synapsida
- Human evolution
- Hominid Hominidae
Evolutionary and phylogenetic taxonomy
- Taxonomy Taxonomy (biology)
- Taxa Taxon
- Clade
- Cladistics
- Cladograms Cladogram
- Monophyletic Monophyly
- Phylogenetic names Phylogenetic nomenclature
- Misnomer
- Basal taxa Basal (phylogenetics)
- Sister taxa Sister group
- Species
- Plankton
- Microfossils Micropaleontology
Prominent examples
- Genus
- Theropod Theropoda
- Avialan Avialae
- Late Jurassic
- Period Period (geology)
- Archipelago
- European magpie
- Raven
- Mesozoic
- Deinonychosaurs Deinonychosauria
- Dromaeosaurs Dromaeosauridae
- Troodontids Troodontidae
- Feathers Feather
- Homeothermy
- Flight feathers Flight feather
- Ape
- Iliac blades Ilium (bone)
- Knee extensors Rectus femoris muscle
- Pelvis
- Bipedalism
- Femur
- Hip
- Orangutans Orangutan
- Spider monkeys Spider monkey
- Adducted
- Hindlimbs Hindlimb
- Chimpanzee Common chimpanzee
- Pakicetus
- Ambulocetus natans
- Cetaceans Cetacea
Fossil record
- Fossil record
- Donald Prothero
- Soft-bodied organisms Soft-bodied organism
- Echinoderms Echinoderm
- Brachiopods Brachiopod
- Arthropods Arthropod
History
- Reptiles Reptile
- Hugh Falconer
- Encyclopedic dictionary
- Divisions Phylum
- Vascular plants Vascular plant
- Robert Kidston
- William Henry Lang
- Rhynie chert
- Aberdeenshire
- Rhynia
- Dichotomously Dichotomy
- Sporophyte
- Mosses
- Alternation of generations
- Gametophyte
- Ferns Fern
- Clubmosses Lycopodiopsida
- Rhizoids Rhizoid
Missing links
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Towards complexity and perfection Orthogenesis
- Ernst Haeckel
- Charles Lyell
- Geological column Geologic time scale
- Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man
- Last glacial period
- Jules Verne
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Louis Figuier
- Garden of Eden
- Eugène Dubois
- Solo River
- Java
- Skull roof
- Java Man
- Pithecanthropus erectus Homo erectus
Punctuated equilibrium
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Niles Eldredge
- Creationists Creationism
- The Panda's Thumb The Panda's Thumb (book)
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Nodes160
Edges159
Triples95
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0125
Components1
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Transitional fossil
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related to Tiktaalik · 18
Transitional fossil → Acanthostega, Boisvert, Canada, Ellesmere Island, However, Ichthyostega, It, Its, Late Devonian, Like, Neil Shubin, Nunavut, Paleontologists, Panderichthys, They, Tiktaalik, Unlike, Well-preserved
related to Post-Darwin · 15
Transitional fossil → Archaeopteryx, Darwin, Darwin's, Darwin's On, For, Hugh Falconer, In, London, Nordisk, Origin, Species, Swedish, The, Thus, While
related to Archaeopteryx · 12
Transitional fossil → Archaeopteryx, Despite, Europe, European, Germany, In, It, Late Jurassic, Mesozoic, Similar, Since, These
related to The rise of plants · 12
Transitional fossil → Aberdeenshire, From, In, Rhynia, Rhynie, Robert Kidston, Scotland, The, The Rhynia, Transitional, William Henry Lang, With
related to Punctuated equilibrium · 9
Transitional fossil → Eldredge, Gould, Niles Eldredge, Stephen Jay Gould, The, The Panda's Thumb, These, This, To
related to Amphistium · 7
Transitional fossil → Amphistium, In, In Amphistium, Other, Paleontologists, Pleuronectiformes, The
related to Transitions in phylogenetic nomenclature · 7
Transitional fossil → Differentiation, In, The, Thus, Transitional, While, With
related to Fossil record · 5
Transitional fossil → Because, Not, Organisms, Paleontologist Donald Prothero, The
related to Transitional versus ancestral · 5
Transitional fossil → But, Cladistics, However, The, There
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transitional fossils fossil archaeopteryx record evolution human species groups form birds fish known years used evolutionary like first time theory
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panderichthys | instance of | Paleontologists suggest that it is representative of the transition between non-tetrapod vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| known from fossils 380 million years old | instance of | Paleontologists suggest that it is representative of the transition between non-tetrapod vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| and early tetrapods such as Acanthostega | instance of | Paleontologists suggest that it is representative of the transition between non-tetrapod vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| Ichthyostega | instance of | Paleontologists suggest that it is representative of the transition between non-tetrapod vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| known from fossils about 365 million years old | instance of | Paleontologists suggest that it is representative of the transition between non-tetrapod vertebrates | 0.80 | text |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | Pleuronectiformes | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | The | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | In | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | Other | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | Amphistium | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | In Amphistium | 0.60 | section |
| Transitional fossil | related to Amphistium | Paleontologists | 0.60 | section |
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