tion —a title so tepidand tentative t o issue just five once presented , and a sliging title, Murray reconsideredand increased tial print run to 1,250.

    On te commercial success, but raticalone. Dared tractable difficulties. It needed far more time to concede, and it ed by fossil evidence. ful critics, ransitional forms t inuously evolving, t to be lots ofintermediate forms scattered across t t.

    3In fact, t existed time after ofthe famous Cambrian explosion.

    3By coincidence, in 1861, at t of troversy, just sucurned up ure   it also eet  asingle discovery could hardly be considered conclusive.

    But noing t t  life and t   found it yet because, for  been preserved. It simply could not be otained. “t presentmust remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against tertained,”  candidly, but o entertain an alternative possibility.

    By ion ed—inventively but incorrectly—t peroo clear to lay dos and thus had preserved no fossils.

    Even Dar friends roubled by tions.

    Adam Sedgaken our ofales in 1831, said tas poor conjecture. Even Lyell concluded gloomily: “Daroo far.”

    t. ence on s of geological time because ationist,  evolutionary cgradually but suddenly. Saltationists (tin for “leap”) couldn’taccept t complicated organs could ever emerge in sloages.  good, after all, is one-tent, only made sense if tate.

    t as  closely recalled a veryconservative religious notion first put for from design. Paley contended