Was such Evolution or development genetic?
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Undoubtedly, too, it is difficult for our minds to imagine in what way, except through genetic evolution, the successive production of more and more developed types could be effected.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
The significance of all these various facts is thus summed up: The whole evidence supplied by fossil plants is, then, opposed to the hypothesis of genetic evolution, and especially the sudden and simultaneous appearance of the most highly organized plants at particular stages in the past history of the globe, and the entire absence amongst fossil plants of any forms intermediate between existing classes or families.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard