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Fossil records date back to the time when 1st life forms were found on this earth. Hence in order to know about the information of what happened there and many other queries, fossil records are a must.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe fossil record does not just help us confirm hypotheses regarding common ancestry: it helps us understand the evolutionary history of, and the relationships between modern forms better.
That having been said: evolutionary theory could do without fossil evidence. If genetic data were all we had to go by, evolutionary theory would still have pretty much the same form as it has now.
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∙ 11y agoIt's the only record we have of extinct life-forms.
Everything else is fables.
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∙ 13y agoevidence early life
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They tell us about things we have never met or seen and maybe what we even want to know before or the things we did not even know before we were born or what our friends wanted us to know if they studied about history.
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They tell about history
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How did Charles Darwin view the fossil record?
useful support for his theory
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.
How does the fossil record evidence support the modern theory of evolution?
Answer 1For Example, You find a fossil of a creature from a certain timeline, then you find the same creature with some changes in a timeline later than the previous and if you have enough fossils you can see how the organism appears at its earliest place in the fossil record( some organisms only appear in the fossil record once they have evolved in a way that makes fossilization possible eg shell, jellyfish are very rare in fossils because they are mostly water) and see the organism change over time into a completely different animal through a series of consecutive glimpses of the creature.Answer 2The absence of transitional forms (fossil record) is an insurmountable hurdle for all evolutionists.Answer 3The fossil record, with its many diverging progressions of traits and morphological intermediates, illustrates the changing of life forms as they diverge from their common ancestors towards more modern forms, matching seamlessly the nested hierarchies of modern morphology. Even without the fossil record, we would have had a pretty good picture of our evolutionary past - with it, we can give shape to the forms that came before us.
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record as?
Darwin predicted that the fossil record would either prove or falsify his theory. Darwin realized the difficulty the fossil record (missing links) gave his theory when he said, "Why, if species have descended from other species by fine graduation, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" Today, top evolutionists know that Darwin's predictions of what the fossil record would reveal have failed.
What theory claimed that the state developed naturally out of the early family?
Evolutionary theory
What is the relationship between the fossil record and the scientific theory of evolution?
The fossil record independently confirms the general hypothesis of common descent, and allows palaeontologists and evolutionary biologists to confirm specific proposed phylogenies as well as specific hypotheses about the evolutionary past of various lineages.
Which fossils are the most important to evolutionary theory?
Technically, fossils are not required to demonstrate the accuracy of the central hypotheses of evolutionary theory. The accuracy of common descent and natural selection can be demonstrated effectively only referring to observations in zoology, molecular and developmental biology, genetics and comparative genomics. However, the fossil record does allow palaeontologists to have a more detailed look at the form and behaviour of past lifeforms, something that comparative genomics by itself may not, and to confirm specific hypotheses about the nature and timing of specific events in the evolutionary history of diverging lineages. In this last category, transitional fossils are perhaps the most significant markers in the fossil record.
What theory does the fossil record support?
It is generally thought to support the Theory of Evolution.
Why was evolutionary theory important?
when a man is known as diabetic
What two major developments helped scientists explain the fossil record?
The principle of fossil succession and the theory of evolution have helped scientists explain the fossil record.
How did Charles Darwin view the fossil record?
useful support for his theory
What did Stephen Gould invent?
Gould's greatest contribution to science was the theory of punctuated equilibrium which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972. The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability, which is punctuated by rare instances ofbranching evolution. The theory was contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of smooth and continuous change in the fossil record.
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.
What ideas in lyells theory uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory?
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What idea in Lyells theory of uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory?
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What ideas in Lyell theory of uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory?
The idea is that there is no idea:P I'm just jocking guys
What ideas in lyells theory of uniformitarianism were important for evolutionary theory?
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