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1.2 describe, using specific examples, how the theory of evolution is supported by the following areas of study:

describe, using specific examples, how the theory of evolution is supported by the following areas of study:

Background

Palaeontology is the study of fossils. Fossils are preserved traces of past life on Earth, mostly found in sedimentary rocks. Fossils can include preserved body parts, moulds and casts of decayed organisms, and imprints left in mud such as footprints.

Preserved material less than 10 000 years old or hand-made objects such as arrowheads are not considered fossils, they are artefacts.

Palaeontology

Biogeography

Comparative embryology

Comparative anatomy

Biochemistry