Is there fossil evidence for human evolution?
Posted by staff / April 27, 2011
It’s easy to trace the evolution of the automobile. Your family tree poses a whole different challenge. Even an extensive genealogy chart can only reach back so far. So how do we chart the evolution of the human race?
Evolutionary biologists use several methods to decipher exactly how we came to be as we are. While the fossil record by its very nature is incomplete, there’s no shortage of fossil evidence to link the planet’s varied life forms into a great tree of life, a chart that scientists call a phylogenetic tree.
Full article at HowStuffWorks.com.
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