Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollyson
I have my doubts towards the validity of INTERSPICIES evolution not due to religious background, but due to scientific infirmities. INTRAspecies is undeniable, but science has yet to find a real interspecies link.

Please don't think Im being rude but I think you have missed the point. Speciation, divergence and survival are byproducts of genome plasticity and that my friend, in conjunction with a selection pressure is what it is all about !

Can you imagine what the advantages are of a relatively genetically plastic genome over a rigidly stable one in a constantly changing and hostile environment ? One bad thing is cancer however that is by the buy !

As for the missing link, I think this is another misnomer.

It is like looking for a link between a Saturn 5 moon rocket and a Palm pilot ! The link as we both know is the humans mind not a Texas Instruments Scientific calculator from the mid 80s !

Speciation is a radial process involving common ancestors and as far as philogenetics are concerned the common ancestor between a primate and a dog may not look anything like what we are expecting to see. And it certainly wont have hung about for a hundred million years without evolving its self !!

Not so much missing as overlooked !

Give it 10 years and with the speed of genome sequencing I may even be proved, empirically, to be right !