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"If we estimate only one intermediate form for each centimeter and if we take into account the variations within each species, we conclude that there were, say, about 200 missing intermediate forms (assuming only 2 m difference between "small giraffes" and large okapis). Since G. G. Simpson, a proponent of the synthetic theory of evolution, estimates a growth rate in horse teeth of about one millimeter per million years, and assumes that even this millimeter is gradually bridged through numerious intermediate forms (cf. Artbegriff 1993, p. 448), one can ask, to what extent this estimate could be applied to the growth rate of the length of neck vertebrae and other bones. Using such calculations, there are even more intermediate forms required: According to the theory of gradual evolution at least 1000 links are missing between the okapioid ancestor and Giraffa, conservatively estimated!"