1. What’s the word from the fossil record? California State Biology Standard 8. Evolution is the result of genetic changes that occur in constantly changing environments. As a basis for understanding this concept: e. Students know how to analyze fossil evidence with regard to biological diversity, episodic speciation, and mass extinction

2. What does this tell us? Photographer: Audrey Aronowsky Organization: University of California Museum of Paleontology Collection: UCMP ID: 0000 0000 0702 0822 (2002-07-28)Audrey AronowskyUCMP Copyright © 2002 University of California Museum of Paleontology

3. How about this? http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/historyoflife/ mysteries/mystery12/mystery12.html

4. And this? http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/historyoflife/ mysteries/images/mysteryfoss34_big.jpg

5. What happened here?

6. So…what does the fossil record tell us? Please write down five different pieces of information that the fossil record tells us… a. b. c. d. e.

7. How about this? math.ucr.edu