Now we do have many examples of transitional sequences.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
I think all of our records are a progression of some sort.
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.
And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
A sequence works in a way a collection never can.
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.