Evidence for Evolution

“If your child visited a natural history museum and saw fossils and skeletons of different animals, could they explain how scientists use those to build up evidence that species change over time — and that different animals are related?”

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• ⬜Explains how fossils form and what they can tell us about past life
• ⬜Uses the fossil record as evidence that species have changed over time
• ⬜Describes homologous structures (e.g. pentadactyl limb) as evidence for common ancestry
• ⬜Explains why island species provide evidence for evolution (e.g. Darwin's finches, Galapagos)