Through studying embryos, scientists have found that vertebrate animals seem to have a common design, even though their adult forms are different. Arm buds on different species, for example, look the same early on during embryonic development, yet they will develop into very different forms in the adult (a flipper, an arm, a wing, etc).
Embryology is used in evolution because its shows a common ansetor. For example, a human and fi sh have similar embryos. Both embryos have pharyngeal slits. In a fish those develop into gills. In humans those turn into our ears.
Embryology shows the same thing that all other branches of biology and palaeontology show: a strong convergence of phylogenies based on independent assays of traits, both morphological traits at the various stages of development as well as the developmental paths taken by the various organisms. This can only be explained by common descent.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, or the development of the individual summarizes the evolution of the species. For example, human embryos go through a stage in which they develop gills as did their aquatic forerunners.
Evolution may refer to both the observed phenomenon and the theoretical framework explaining observations in terms of what we know of that phenomenon. Phenomena need no support, just verification. Theories aren't usually supported by other theories, but by observational data. Just so for evolutionary theory: it's supported by the observations in embryology, genetics, comparative genomics, palaeontology, ethology, zoology, microbiology, molecular biology, and so forth.
embryology works by...........
Monstrous Ajility
Percy E. Davidson has written: 'The recapitulation theory and human infancy' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Embryology, Evolution, Human Embryology, Human evolution, Ontogeny
biogeography taxonomy morphology physiology genetics embryology ecology evolution from allenwalker
used to prove the analogous homologous characteristics of evolution
Embryology is used in evolution because its shows a common ansetor. For example, a human and fi sh have similar embryos. Both embryos have pharyngeal slits. In a fish those develop into gills. In humans those turn into our ears.
Embryology shows the same thing that all other branches of biology and palaeontology show: a strong convergence of phylogenies based on independent assays of traits, both morphological traits at the various stages of development as well as the developmental paths taken by the various organisms. This can only be explained by common descent.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, or the development of the individual summarizes the evolution of the species. For example, human embryos go through a stage in which they develop gills as did their aquatic forerunners.
Rudolf A. Raff has written: 'Embryos, genes, and evolution' -- subject(s): Embryology, Developmental genetics, Evolution, Evolution (Biology) 'Development As an Evolutionary Process' 'The shape of life' -- subject(s): Evolutionary genetics
Edwin Grant Conklin has written: 'Problems of organic adaptation' -- subject(s): Adaptation (Biology) 'The embryology of Crepidula' -- subject(s): Crepidula, Embryology 'Biographical memoir of William Keith Brooks, 1848-1908' 'Man, real and ideal' -- subject(s): Human beings, Evolution, Philosophy, Science 'Evolution and the Bible' -- subject(s): Evolution, Religion and science
vestgial structures fossils embryology also a big one is that there is a universal genetic code
embryology works by...........
Evolution may refer to both the observed phenomenon and the theoretical framework explaining observations in terms of what we know of that phenomenon. Phenomena need no support, just verification. Theories aren't usually supported by other theories, but by observational data. Just so for evolutionary theory: it's supported by the observations in embryology, genetics, comparative genomics, palaeontology, ethology, zoology, microbiology, molecular biology, and so forth.