Evolutionary History

A scientist who studies fossils

• Meteorologist

• Geologist

• Paleontologist

• Astronomer

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The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• Fossil

• Bones

• Organs

• Carbon Footprints

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a part of an organism (for example, one or more bones)

• shared structures

• analogous structures

• homologous structures

• body structure

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a body structure in two or more species that features the same parts (for example, the same bones)

• bone structures

• shared structure (homologous structure)

• analogous structures

• structures

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An ancestral species from which later species evolved

• analogous structures

• descendent species

• common ancestor

• homologous structures

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a more recent species that evolved from an ancestor population

• homologous structures

• descendant species

• common ancestor

• families

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a diagram that reflects evolutionary relationships among groups of organisms

• family tree

• evolutionary species

• evolutionary groups

• evolutionary tree

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