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Zoology

Evidences Of Evolution

Evidence of evolution

  • Homology is the similarity between organs of different animals based on common ancestry or common embryonic organic and built in the same fundamental pattern, but perform a varied function and have a different appearance. Adaptive radiation or divergent represents the evolution of new forms in several directions from the common ancestral type (diverge).
  • The analogous organs have an almost similar appearance and perform the same function, but this development is totally different groups and is totally different in their basics structure, and developmental origin, the study of analogous organs illustrates of convergent evolution.
  • Vestigial or rudimentary organs are the useless remnants of structure or organs which might have been large and functional in the ancestors.
  • Haeckel formulated the “Recapitulation theory of biogenetic law.” This theory says that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny,” i.e., life-history recapitulates evolutionary history.
  • Paleontology is the study of past life based on fossil records.