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Scientists use many of the same thought processes that police use to unravel a mystery.
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.
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A scientist who studies fossils?
Paleontologist
What is a person who studies fossils?
A Paleontologist is a person who studies fossils.
How does selection prove evolution?
Science has no capacity to completely prove something... However these are some facts that make it likely to be true. - An extensive fossil record which completely conforms to predictions. - Observing evolution in action (such as the flu virus changing ever year, the HIV virus changing all the time, speciation in plants and animals in non-lab environments, lab experiments etc). - Paternity testing (the techniques used in paternity testing are also used to demonstrate how closely related different species are). - DNA (all organisms use the exact same code for proteins) - similarities in phylogeny (why do we share so many features with other organisms?) - similarities in DNA conform to the predictions made by evolution
What do you call someone who researches fossils?
A person who studies dinosaurs and fossils is called a palaeontologist.
Can science prove which came first egg or hen?
I think science can prove it. Because, thanks to evolution birds evolved from dinosaurs. Obviously these were very basic birds of course but then came the more complex, sub species of birds. The hen did come first, as it took millions of years of evolution to create it. And though many may disagree and say that you need an egg to create a hen, well in this case.. Evolution created the hen, which will then create the egg.
How does animal classification prove evolution?
5 prove about the animals
What do you call scientist who study fossils?
A scientist who studies fossil remains is a paleontologist. Woods, bones, and shells are the most common fossils. Paleontology tells us about ecologies of the past, evolution, and our place as humans, in the world.
What was drawins purpose?
to prove evolution
How do we prove that evolution is true?
sorry, you cannot prove that something is true if it is not true!
What was comparative embryology trying to prove?
used to prove the analogous homologous characteristics of evolution
What do scientists use fossil evidence to prove?
Evolution
Did Charles Darwin have evidence to prove evolution?
No, of course not. Evidence does not prove evolution - it validates the theory.Evidence which Darwin had included limited fossils, and observed apparent speciation in birds.
What is the difference between archlogist and paleontologist?
An archaeologist studies human history and artifacts, focusing on civilizations and cultures through material remains. A paleontologist studies fossils and ancient life forms, focusing on the evolution and history of life on Earth.
What are some simple ways to prove evolution wrong?
Evolution is not incorrect. Science believes that creatioism is wrong.
Use the words evolution and ancestor in a sentence?
Some tell us that Lucy, the name given a fossil found by paleontologist Donald C. Johanson in Hadar, Ethiopia, is the ancestor of humans, and her differences from us are based on evolution.
A scientist who studies fossils?
Paleontologist
Why are the ideas about evolution called theories?
Because although there is evidence to support the claims, it isn't possible to prove evolution indefinately.
