AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Evidence for evolution: anatomy, molecular biology, biogeography, fossils, & direct observation. Key points: Evidence for evolution comes from many different areas of biology: Anatomy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Biogeography, the study of the geographical distribution of organisms, provides information about how and when species may have evolved. Fossils provide evidence of long-term evolutionary changes, documenting the past existence of species that are now extinct.

Detailed explanation-3: -In fact, we may distinguish five theories that Darwin combined: evolution as such, common descent, gradualism, multiplication of species, and natural selection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps the most persuasive fossil evidence for evolution is the consistency of the sequence of fossils from early to recent. Nowhere on Earth do we find, for example, mammals in Devonian (the age of fishes) strata, or human fossils coexisting with dinosaur remains.