JL: >It is certainly true that "transition" types do not appear in fossiles, >and that problem is discussed in many books about Evolution. It is >absolutely not a refutation of the theory. I guess it depends how you define "transition". Since I can trace every bone in my body back to a fish skeleton, I might interpret much of fossil evidence as "transitional". A glance through the stunning coffee table book below is enough to refute Mr Wolfe's idiocy. Check out the Science section in Barnes & Noble or Borders. The story of human origins is, of course, constantly being rewritten as new info comes to the for, but I'm afraid wethreekings won't make the history books ;) Cheers, Kirt <fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>Review from Scientific American FROM LUCY TO LANGUAGE by Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar Principal photography by David Brill Simon & Schuster Editions, 1996 ($50) Open this book and take history into your hands: the 137 years since Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" and the four million years since the appearance of the first direct hominid ancestors. Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar pull the reader in with a riveting overview of modern anthropology. Then they step back and review the fossil sequence that leads up to Homo sapiens, pointing out the forms that document the evolutionary changes. All the players are here, including the famed Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy" (discovered by Johanson in 1974), H. ergaster and H. heidelbergensis, whose mixture of traits boldly refutes creationism. The photographic documentation is as gorgeous as it is meticulous: the ancient bones, glowing against matte-black backgrounds, look chillingly frail and familiar.--Corey S. Powell </bigger></fontfamily> Kirt Nieft / Melisa Secola