HOPEFUL MONSTERS. “There are no known transitional fossils with only partially displaced eyes that would link these asymmetrical flatfishes with their symmetrically shaped relatives. This lack of transitional fossils has been the source of tremendous scientific controversy regarding whether this asymmetry evolved gradually or through a sudden evolutionary leap that produced “hopeful monsters,” as originally described by geneticist Robert Goldschmidt in the 1930s.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022