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Evolution
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Learn what evolution is all about by exploring these websites. Evolution does not state that humans came from apes. What does evolution prove about life on earth? The answers may surprise you.
1. Things You May Not Know About Evolution (UnivUtah):
- Click on the right hand arrow to start the video.
- Learn how evolution occurs when adaptations of organisms are “better” not “best.”
- Read the background information and study the images of the fish.
- Choose audio on or off and choose to hide or display text.
- Click the arrow to start the animation.
- Scroll to bottom on page to read summary of fish evolution
- Click the right hand arrow to start the video.
- Read the introduction to understand the ancestral changes of the rock pocket mice.
- In the animation, select a background for the mouse environment.
- Watch the years fly by at the bottom of the animation and stop the simulation every 100 years.
- Start the animation over and change the background for the mice.
- Read “About the Animation” and the “Variation and Time” chart for information.
Things You May Not Know About Evolution (UnivUtah)
When better is good enough. Learn about the slight evolutionary changes that made big differences.
Stickleback Evolution (UnivUtah)
How quickly can evolution happen? Examine the recent evolution of the stickleback fish to find out.
All Living Things are Related (UnivUtah)
How do fossils, anatomy, embryos and DNA reveal ties between both modern and ancient life?
Rock Pocket Mice (UnivUtah)
Learn how mutations and variations in traits appear and vanish through offspring and environment.
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