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Stephen J. Gould called the lack of transitional in the fossil record "the trade secret of paleontology". Because evolution always seemed to be happening where we couldn't see any evidence of it (as evidenced by the lack of transitionals) Gould and Niles Eldredge were forced to postulate "punctuated equilibrium" to try to account for the decidedly "undarwinian" fossil record. According to Darwin (if his theory were true) transitional should dominate the fossil record and Darwin wondered aloud where were the missing transitional fossils? Of course, in Darwin's time the fossil strata hadn't been explored much, but it has now been explored with much greater thoroughness and the transitional are still lacking. There are a few candidates as possible transitional but of those we can't even be sure they are transitional without DNA evidence. On the whole, the fossil record refutes and does not confirm Darwin.