@TiggahG i've heard two explanations, (perhaps they're both partly right). First it was named Willy Wonka to coincide with a release of candy of that brand (Quaker at that time, sold to Nestle later), second that it was named to reduce potential for offense, since "charlie" was at that time comm...
@kingofmilwaukee This is a very good point. To answer the transitional fossils bit; if you begin with one ancient organism and end with humans, there will not be just one elusive transitional form separating them, but millions. Evolution works via very tiny changes over a massive number of gene...
@TiggahG i've heard two explanations, (perhaps they're both partly right). First it was named Willy Wonka to coincide with a release of candy of that brand (Quaker at that time, sold to Nestle later), second that it was named to reduce potential for offense, since "charlie" was at that time comm...