“What is the Evidence for Evolution?”

Learning Goals:  Investigate the changes in whales over time ;  to explain how whale anatomy, fossils, and DNA sequences provide evidence for evolution.

Key Concepts: phylogeny, evolution, natural selection, convergent evolution, homologous structures, vestigial structures, fossils, geologic time and relative dating

Macroevolution powerpoint – (click here fore the PDF version)homework will be on slides 16-21.

 

Whale Evolution Web-Based Lab.  The timeline strips. The whale DNA strips.