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Evolution

The scientific theory according to which populations change gradually through a process of natural selection.

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What is the study of vertebrate forelimbs is related to what evidence?

In evolution the study of vertebrate forelimbs is related to the anatomical evidence from homology.

What are some animals that evolved?

All of them. Some animals may have remained the same for a long time, however, they did diverge from a common ancestor at some point in time.

Where did Ardi live?

Species like Ardi have been found in Africa.

How do the peppered moths support the theory of natural selection?

One of those that caught my attention was the evidence of peppered moths changing their color from light to dark due to industrial pollution. This supposedly shows how natural selection can change a species into another type, and eminent scientists have emphasized the importance of this supposed proof of evolution.

Professor John Maynard Smith stated: "We should expect to find the most rapid evolutionary changes in populations suddenly exposed to new conditions. It is therefore natural that one of the most striking changes which has been observed in a wild population . . . is the phenomenon of 'industrial melanism,' the appearance and spread of dark forms of a number of species of moths" (The Theory of Evolution, 1966, p. 137).

What was the common ancestor of all animals was probably?

The last common ancestor of all animals was likely an organism not unlike modern-day protists.

A single celled animal, not a plant found in the deepest oceans.

Did human beings really used to be monkeys?

Sometimes people say, "Scientist claim we used to be monkeys!" But that's not quite right. Scientists say we share a common ancestor with today's apes.

Just as you and your cousin have grandparents in common, so you and those monkeys you see at the zoo have a common ancestor. But that common ancestor lived millions of years ago!

Monkeys, apes and humans are all primates. And all three share certain common characteristics - like ten fingers and ten toes, flattish faces and large brains. But there are obvious differences, too - and those differences are due to evolution.

Scientists say that our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but that doesn't mean that we used to bechimpanzees. We have been evolving seperately for about the last six million years. From a common primate ancestor, two unique species have developed - chimpanzees and homo sapiens(that's us).

Why is it important to understand challenges in a species environment in order to understand the species evolution?

It is important to understand the challenges in a species environment because it would help us to understand what the species should be call and why there here and what ever happens to the species of what it do or do not do, will help us understand species evolution.

Example: what we humans study animals we check what they go through just to know what they do, we do this because to see if evolution occur, evolution is important to see on other species to if the animal can act like a human or a human act like an animal, is like what we say now in days a monkey is going through evolution because they act like us humans and looks. This worry us cause many think the monkeys or gorrilas may take over the world or extinct us human is what there theory is. I hope you understood cause I been new this question since I was 7, your welcome by Titanium Chrome.

What group of organisms evolved from the same ancestors as amphibians?

According to the Theory of Evolution, all organisms have a shared ancestry.

Also, amphibian is a term that can be used to indicate a particular property (ie. coldblooded organism living both on land and in water) that may belong to groups of organisms stemming independently from divergent clades. Used in this sense amphibians are a paraphyletic group. The term amphibian can also be used to indicate a member of the clade Amphibia, a monophyletic grouping within cladistics.

The most recent ancestor common to Amphibia and Reptilia (which would include Mammalia, under the monophyletic usage) would have belonged to the clade of Tetrapoda. This means that both Amphibia and Reptilia (including Mammalia) are Tetrapoda.

How does predation helps in the evolution of organisms?

Predation causes traits that enable prey to evade predators to be favoured in the population gene pool.

Did a vertebrate come first or an invertebrate?

In vertebrates, definitely. The first animals which were invertebrates evolved in the Precambrian time around 600 million years ago. The first vertebrates appeared around 520 million years ago in the Cambrian. Dinosaurs did not emerge until about 230 million years ago in the Triassic.

How did humans evolve from nomads to civilization?

Humans Had Evolved From Nomads to Civilization By Moving from place to place during the seasons. They Also Searched for food and water. One member in the group had to hunt, fish. A couple of groups had cut trees or grass, then burned them to clear a field. Some Humans Had even started to tame animals. The humans mind started to improve and develop by the education or training. So the Civilization had also advanced state of the humans society in which the high level of culture, science, and government had been reached.

When did apes and hominids diverge?

The first fossil remains that have been found were dated around 4.4 million years ago. These were the fossils of Ardipithecus Ramidus, which lived 1 million years before the last fossils that were found.

The structure of the forelimb of a bird is similar in structure to that of the forelimb of a mammal suggesting that both descended from a common ancestor. What is this similarity an example of?

Homologous structures - the forelimb structures are anatomically similar and were derived from a common ancestor; however, they have evolved completely different uses. This provides evidence for divergent evolution or adaptive radiation.



What was the evolution before vertebrates?

The same as it was when and after vertebrates. Evolution is the change in allele frequency over time in a population of organisms. Change over time. Happens and happened in single celled organisms and invertebrates long before there were vertebrates.

What does a bird have for a forelimb?

A bird has a wing as a forelimb as well as a bat, and the function of both are to help the animals fly

Why are dinosaurs eggs so big?

In order to propagate the species, most dinosaurs had to lay multiple eggs. They did this to make sure at least some of their babies survived predators and weather events.

What are the three types of evolution?

1. Directional selection

2. Disruptive selection

3. Stabilizing selection

If you need to know more about them then just research. Trust me, it's easier to look it up than it is to ask the question.

Are humans creations or did we undergo evolution?

In recent years, many excellent books have been published detailing scientific findings and conclusions that I believe compellingly demonstrate the impossibility of evolution as an explanation for the intelligent life on earth. Futhermore, evolution cannot offer an explanation for the origin of our magnificent universe as evolution only seeks to explain how it 'might' have begun in an universe that already existed. With the flood of new discoveries in the universe, microbiology, and many other of the sciences, evolution is at a loss to fully explain these.

The Scripture on the other hand is quite straight forward. In Genesis 1:27 it says, "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them." So we humans reflect the God beings, in effect "we are the offspring of God" (Acts 17:29).

In short, being created in God's image is what makes us human and of a different "kind" than animals. While the 'theory' of evolution describes early man as only being capable of crude grunts, the first chapter of the book of Genesis show Adam and Eve immediately after their creation being able to name the animals, communicate in complete sentences and reason for themselves whether to obey God's instructions to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Our ultimate purpose is that we were created to be of the "God kind." Although God has made us physical beings for now, His ultimate desire is that all men and women accept His authority over their lives and eventually become part of His eternal family as literal children (John 1:12; 2 Corinthians 6:18).

It is an individual's choice :)

When did the marine mammals evolved from land ancestors?

The ancestors of cetaceans began to move into the water and develop aquatic characteristics about 50 million years ago. They have been evolving ever since, gradually becoming more and more aquatic. Today's cetaceans live entirely in water. The ancestors of pinnipeds began moving into water much more recently, about 23 million years ago. Because of this, modern pinnipeds are not as fully aquatic as cetaceans. The ancestors of sirenians began moving into the water about 40 million years ago, and have been evolving since then.

What are examples of post-Darwin evidence for evolution?

Good question. Evolution is like, well did you ever throw a piece of trash on the groud? Than if the rest of us did to in that same spot. It changes the earth and trees, flowers, and grass might die. But I think the trick is pictures.

~Amythefairy

Why are wolves so important?

In areas where there are elk, they force the elk to move around and to be on guard. This is good for vegetation, because without the fear of being eaten, elk will ravish one area before moving on. If they destroy much of the vegetation in an area (specifically the deciduous trees), they eliminate shade needed by fish in streams, make food source harder to find for beavers, which, without their dams, disrupts other stream life. Fewer or no wolves means more deer. More deer means more problems with deer within human settlements. Fewer wolves mean more human run-ins with mountain lions, since they will have little reason not to come down from the high country.
In hunting they tend to kill the weaker and sick members of the herds they hunt; leaving the stronger ones alive giving them a better chance to live and breed

What is an example of co-evolution in a ocean?

Whales and Sharks are examples of coevoultion. they have very similar body shapes despite only being remotely related.

Where did early men and women live?

Human kind developed in central Africa over the course of billions of years. Roughly sixty to one hundred thousand years ago, groups of humans began to migrate out of Africa toward the east and north. We spread out from there in a vast expanding migration until we reached all of the habitable places on the planet. Check the Genographic Project and send them a DNA sample (there is a cost) to learn about the journey your genes followed. I am not affiliated in any way with the Genographic Project, except that I have sent them my DNA.