Evidences of evolution

Fossil Record

Traces or remains of an organism

Artificial selection

humans select feature that are beneficial.

Geographic Distribution

Organisms that were closely related but different species, traveled into surrounding habitat and evolved independently.

Convergent evolution

Evolved similarly in the same environment

Divergent Evolution

Leads to Speciation

Homologous Structures

Same structure different function

Analogous Structure

Same function different structure

Vestigial Organs

Physical or behavioral characteristics that have no longer been used over time

Molecular Homologies

All living things share the same DNA and RNA structure

Embryology

Embryos of vertebrates develop the same way