SOURCES OF

EVIDENCE FOR
EVOLUTION
MS. JONNLIN F. BALDONADO
 EVOLUTION
• Is a change in the heritable characteristics of biological
populations over successive generations
• Evolution is the process by which living organisms evolve
from earlier, more simple organisms.
• These characteristics are the expression genes that are
passed on from one parent to offspring during reproduction.
 EVIDENCE FROM FOSSIL RECORDS
• Fossil remains have been found in rocks of all ages.
Fossils of the simplest organisms are found in the
oldest rocks, and fossils of more complex organisms in
the newest rocks. This supports Darwin's theory of
evolution, which states that simple life forms
gradually evolved into more complex ones.
• Evidence for early forms of life comes from fossils. By
studying fossils, scientists can learn how much (or how
little) organisms have changed as life developed on
Earth.
 FOSSILS

• They are the traces of organisms that lived in the past

and were preserved by natural processes catastrophic
events

• A paleontologist is a person who studies fossils.

 HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES
• It refers to the physical structures of the organisms that have the same
evolutionary origin and positions
• As they progress, the animals develop differently in response to the
function of their appendages.
• The legs of amphibians are adapted for walking and crawling and the
wings of avians are adapted to fly.
 EMBRYOLOGY
• It refers to the scientific study of embryos and their development.
• These vertebrate animals have similarities based on the result of shared
common ancestry.
• As they improved gradually, the vertebrate animals develop a unique
characteristics that differentiates them from the other animal species.
coccyx
made up of three to
five fused vertebrae
(bones)