[quote=Ringman] A much more likely transition is from tree climbing- jumping from branch to branch- gliding from branch to branch and from tree to tree- flying. All gradual - no big changes all at once.[/i]
Well, the pre eminent paleoanthropologist of all time, Stephan Jay Gould, spent a lifetime examining all the schit you guys keep wiki-ing up, plus thousands of other examples, and he said it was impossible for it to have happened "gradually". So, I guess he was FOS, huh?
The problem is with your understanding of the word "gradually." Gradually on the geological scale of time is different from gradually on the historical scale of time. Same with "sudden," such as the "sudden" appearance of millions of new species at the dawn of the Cambrian period, called the Cambrian Explosion. It's only "sudden" on the geological scale of time. In normal terms, it was amazingly slow and gradual. Your confusion about these terms stems from your not entering the minds of scientists to understand what they mean by them.
