How do fossil records provide evidence of evolution?

Answer 1

Fossils are like the clues the police use to solve a crime.

Each one tells a story. Like clues to a crime, where the police don't have to find a print of every footstep taken by a subject or confirm every thing that he did, the clues paint a logical outline of all the events around the crime.

Like clues in a crime the police do not initially identify a person they want to pin the crime on and then seek to tie him to the event - they find a number of clues which identify potential subjects of interest. They then attempt to prove the relation of these suspects to the crime until the trail of evidence is strong and dependable. Usually multiple facts on the same evidence are considered - for a crime it might be fingerprints and video tape and eye witnesses, for fossils it could be carbon 14 and dendronchronology and geologic strata.
It shows how organisms change over time.
Correct, yes. For example, the earliest vertebrates are jawless fishes, followed by fish with jaws. The earliest terrestrial vertebrates bear uncanny resemblance to sarcopterygian lungfish. The earliest fossils of reptiles bear remarkable resemblance to those earlier amphibians. The earliest birds share numerous reptilian features of therapsid dinosaurs.

This is just vertebrate evolution--we can trace similar stories of change in botanical fossil records, and the fossil record for various invertebrates.
Fossils indicate evolution occurred as they detail variations in bone structures of related animal species, and in plant forms and structures. Radioisotope dates of rock strata demonstrate how plants and animals changed over time. Fossils also reveal how the climate of an area in which the animal or plant lived in changed over of time and how the animal or plant adapted to its environment.

Fossils are remains or impressions of ancient creatures, some of which represent lineages now extinct, and others from which existing species evolved.
Well, do the skeletons of animals today look the same as those found as fossils? The differences between today's living organisms and those that lived thousands of years ago are the very idea of evolution: that life is constantly changing.
fossils are the cool thing about the evidence, as years go by a rock like build up happens and when this works into place you can see the years by the rock that is present around the fossils. when you see what rocks or how far you have dug the rocks will show you what the years it was in.

Answer 2

It shows the " progression " of organisms from simple to more complex ( generally ) and shows relationship between species that lived long ago and today's species. It shows the change over time, albeit a bit gappy, that organism have gone through; evolution.

Answer 3

It shows how organisms change over time-APEX

just took it, 4.1.4

Answer 4

The fossil record provides information on the order in which species have existed.

Answer 5

Evolution! History of species and how they evolved. How people lived.

Answer 6

what is earth's fossil record shows evidence that

Answer 7

I think it is physiological