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It shows how organisms change slowly overtime.
For example, examination of the inner ear bones of whales show how it changed from being able to hear well on land to being able to hear well in water as it evolved from a land mammal to a mammal that lived both on land and in the water, to one that only lives in the water.
This shows support of natural selection because it would be advantageous for an animal who was spending more and more time in the water to have hearing adapted to hearing in the water.
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Fossils are an important line of evidence in supporting common descent, but do very little to either confirm or deny the hypothesis as to the mechanisms of divergence. The most important evidence for the mechanisms of divergence comes from genetics, population dynamics and the study of animal behaviour, not from palaeontology.
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How did Charles Darwin view the fossil record?
useful support for his theory
How has your knowledge of the fossil record changed since darwin proposed his theory of natural selection?
Many more fossils have been found, some of our ancestors and we have dated the earth to be 4.5billion years old. We can take samples of ice deep in glaciers to look back into the environment at the time. We know that the further we go back in the fossil record the simpler organisms get. We can find deactivated genetic material for tails in human DNA. We have a full understanding of DNA and how it mutates and much more.
What evidence did Stephen Jay Gould use to support his theory?
The discontinuities in the fossil record that seemed to show that some species or taxons were in a state of non-evolution and then seemed to go through a burst of rapid evolutionary change. This is really only seen in the fossil record and does not have a lot of support in disciplines such as molecular genetic, which genetic divergence back through time in today's genomes.
What is a component of the fossil record?
dinosaur footprints
How the fossil record indicates a long history of changing life forms.?
The fossil record shows that different species have evolved over time. The fossil record also provides evidence of how a specific organism evolved from earlier species. The fossil record shows that organisms have become more complex over time. It also shows which organisms lived during the same time period, which have a common ancestor, and which have become extinct.
Give five example of common?
evolution. the fossil record. uniformitarianism. the origin of new species. natural selection.
Is fossil record considered scientific theory?
Probably more in the line of many converging pieces of evidence in support of theory. Theory is explanation and fossils are just mineralized bones in the rock. which need and explanation. The fossil record supports the theory of evolution by natural selection and, some say, the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
How hourse used to support theory of evolution?
The transition of the horse from the Eocene to today is well documented in the fossil record and the genetic/biochemical record compares favorable and strongly with the fossil record. So, evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms (change over time ), is shown and only natural selection is known to produce such great adaptive change in individuals leading to a populations evolution.
What theory does the fossil record support?
It is generally thought to support the Theory of Evolution.
How does the fossil record help us determine the evoultion of organisms?
The fossil record is life's evolutionary epic that unfolded over four billion years as environmental conditions and genetic potential interacted in accordance with natural selection. It shows us the changes species have incurred over millions of years.
How did Charles Darwin view the fossil record?
useful support for his theory
Why does the presence of extinct and transitional forms in the record support the pattern component of the theory of evolution by natural selection?
supports hypothesis that species have changed over time.
What is the chronological collection of life's remains found in layers of rock?
The answer is the fossil record :D
What is fossil record?
The fossil record is the information about the fossils found in a particular location.
How can palaeontology assist in providing evidence for hypotheses related to natural selection?
Fossil evidence is used mainly to refine phylogenies, rather than to assess environmental pressures triggering certain developments. But in certain cases, it can do both. For instance, changes in the record of fossil seeds or proposed predator and prey animals surrounding a given fossil form can provide hints as to the causes for subsequent development of that form.
How are fossil organized in the fossil record?
The fossil record organizes fos- sils by their estimated ages and physical similarities.
How does the fossil record organize fossil?
The fossil record organizes fos- sils by their estimated ages and physical similarities.
