Define evolution. How deos it occurs?describe how fossils provides us evidence in sopport of evolution
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DEFINITION OF EVOLUTION:
Evolution is the process of acquiring change or The scientific idea that plants and animals developed gradually from simple to more complicated forms.
Process of evolution are as follows:
1.Most life forms that we see today had variations that acccumulated overs to allow the organisms possessing them to survive better.
Examples:Elongation of neck and forelimbs in giraffe,Human evolution ( From Homo habilus to Homo sapiens-present man) ,different life process (nutrition,circulation,excretion,reproduction,etc) evolved through evolution and many more .
FOSSILS:Fossils are evidences of ancient life forms or ancient habitats which have been preserved by natural processes.
-They provide us actual remains of once lived such as bones or seeds or even traces of past events.
Examples - Dinosarus , Archeopterxy(acts as a connecting linkage between aves and reptiles),etc
The study of fossils is called Palaeontology .It determine the age of fossils by using carbon dating method.