What is "intermediates"

Usage examples of "intermediates".

In addition to the rummage sales, every Tuesday afternoon her group knitted for the troops, in the drawing room—washcloths for the beginners, scarves for the intermediates, balaclavas and gloves for the experts.

I think I am right in saying that the problem of intermediates is inescapably, inherently a part of all taxonomic systems other than that which springs from evolutionary biology.

We also can find a plausible series of intermediates among modern animals.

For each of these types of eye, stages corresponding to evolutionary intermediates exist as working eyes among other modern animals.

One of the strongest expectations the theory of evolution gives us is that intermediates of this kind should not exist.

The distinction between modern birds, and modern non-birds like mammals, is a clear-cut one only because the intermediates converging backwards on the common ancestor are all dead.

The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.

If, in various forgotten islands around the world, survivors of all intermediates back to the chimp/human common ancestor were discovered, who can doubt that our laws and our moral conventions would be profoundly affected, especially as there would presumably be some interbreeding along the spectrum?

But anybody who thinks that there is something obvious and self-evident about human 'rights' should reflect that it is just sheer luck that these embarrassing intermediates happen not to have survived.

No matter how improbable it is that an X could have arisen from a Y in a single step, it is always possible to conceive of a series of infinitesimally graded intermediates between them.

We are allowed to do this only if there has been sufficient time to fit all the intermediates in.

It follows that the intermediates marking the progress over the millions of years leading up to the present should vastly outnumber the final forms seen today, and have left evidence of their passing accordingly.

Species, and all the successively higher groups composed of species—genus, family, order, class, phylum—appear abruptly, fully differentiated and specialized, in sudden epochs of innovation just as the catastrophists had always said, without any intermediates leading up to them or linking them together.

If the search turned up repeated instances of the same integers in great amounts but never a fraction, our knowledge of probabilities would soon cast growing suspicion that the theory was false and no intermediates between the integers existed.

What the Kronians appeared to have done was dispense with intermediates and deal directly in the values that ultimately mattered.