Question

Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships.

Answer 1

Fossils are the remains or preserved traces of dead plants or animals, which died millions of years ago and some of them are already extinct. The remains or impressions of body part, sometime can befound between different layers of earth under its surface. The study of fossils havehelped us to know about the evolution or the link between two species. Fossils tells us how new species are developed from the old. So fossils have an importance in deciding evolutionary relationship.

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Answer 2

fossils give practical evidence of existence and development of species that survived  ages ago they give a good basis for all the theories of evolution we have studied yet. they help us in finding out our  ancestors and our relation to other species