Why is it difficult to find intermediate fossils for organisms that have evolved under the punctuated equilibrium

model?



What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER: Evolutionary change in these organisms has been so rapid that relatively few intermediate
individuals lived, and so were unlikely to have been fossilized.

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