This fact raises further questions and casts a dark shadow over the entire subject of evolution and natural selection. Dawkins’s claim that no fossil evidence is needed is rationalized because, supposedly, it’s all there in the DNA. That is troubling. If it’s not in the fossil record, doesn’t that logically raise questions concerning the confident conclusions supposedly supported by DNA analysis? It is hardly necessary to repeat the embarrassing trail of such fraudulent “missing links” as Piltdown Man, Java Man, Nebraska Man, Neanderthal Man, et al.