This is in regards to the book called \"Your inner Fish\" written by Neil shubin

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This is in regards to the book called "Your inner Fish" written by Neil shubin.

Thinking of the quote" How can we visualize events that happened millions, and in some cases, billions of years ago? ... only a small fraction are preserved as fossils, and that an even smaller fraction still are ever found, then any attempt to see our past seems doomed from the start." Would you have the patience and the fortitude to plan and carry out an expedition (year after year) to search for fossils knowing that the above quote is true, and that serendipity plays such a huge role in discovery?

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It is believed that 99 percent of all species that ever existed are now extinct. If it is found that, all vertebrate terrestrial animals descended from a common ancestor with limb structure, that will indicate the common ancestor in rock of an appropriate age. If it is found that amphibians are found at 165 million years before and further there were absence of amphibians at 185 million years ago, that will indicate that the transitional fossil could have been between those two ages. There existed few exposed rock surfaces on Earth that are at this age, devonian, and of freshwater river deltas, indicate places of the name Ellesmere Island in the Arctic.

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