"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

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Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

— Stephen Jay Gould