Great Transformations – Evolution

PBS

1. What does evolution show us?

2. What are the largest living animals today?

3. What organ structure in whales is similar in humans?

4. What was found in the Sahara desert? How old were the findings? What is the Sahara desert known as?

5. What did these new findings have that modern whales have lost?

6. Describe the difference in swimming motion between a fish and a whale.

7. What was the scientific breakthrough that changed the information in textbooks?

8. Arthropods are descended from what extinct creature?

9. What rare fossil was found in the Burgess Shale? Why was this finding so important?

10. According to Levine, what holds the clues to how animals have changes and evolved?

11. What was taken from a mouse and inserted into a fruit fly? What was the outcome?

12. In human evolution, what happened about 4 million years ago?

13. What particular animal is studied to answer questions about our evolution?

14. Although our genes are almost identical, name two physical difference between chimp and human skeletons.