[Right Wing Professor]

Please demonstrate, out of the 95% of the total fossil record, one single nested hierarchy of any complex invertebrate that appears to be a modification of earlier nested hierarchies.

Why specify complex invertebrates? And what do you consider a complex invertebrate? An insect? An echinoderm?

[Diamond]

Why specify complex invertebrates?

They constitute the vastly overwhelming portion of the entire fossil record. Complete body plans are preserved and can be compared by the millions. The comparison of just a bone here or there, or a few bones, or partial skeletons, or even a few full skeletons, etc., that constitute just a tiny porportion of the entire fossil record, is much more prone to highly subjective interpretation, and error. Any complex invertebrate will do.

Cordially,

[grey_whiskers]

"...one single nested hierarchy of any complex invertebrate that appears to be a modification of earlier nested hierarchies."

The current crop of RINOs and spineless GOP leadership ("invertebrate") in the US Senate appears to qualify nicely :-)

Cheers!