Mention two significance of fossils in evolutionary studies.
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Fossils can give us insight into how pre- historic plants and animals obtained food, reproduced and even how they behaved.
Fossils provide evidence for how or why the fossil organism died.
Fossils allow researchers to match layers of rock in different locations by age based on how similar the fossils in each rock layer are. This helps in understanding when the layers of rocks were formed even when large distances separate them.
The type of fossil in a particular location tells us what kind of environment existed when the fossil was formed.
Using information pieced together from fossil evidence, scientists can reconstruct body types of animals that no longer exist and put together to describe the evolutionary relationships between organisms.
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- Mention two significance of fossils in evolutionary studies.
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➻ Two importance of fossils as evidence to study evolution :-
- Fossils supply information about the ancient environmental and climate conditions from different strata of earth of different periods.
- Many fossilized organisms posscssed characteristics of two groups. These fossil act as ' missing link' and as intermediate or transitional from shows the line of evolution from one group to other.