1. Evolution: Whale Project
To see where we might be going, we must understand where we have been
Robert Tamarkin, 1993

2. Evidence of Evolution

3. Modern Whales Evolution supports:
homologous structures,
transitional organisms,
DNA

4. Whale Evolution Project
Homology
Bone structures like many in mammals
Compared to ungulates

5. Whale Limb Homology

6. Ancestry of Modern Whales
Are Whales more closely related to perrisodactyls (odd toed ungluates) or artiodactyls (even toed ungulates)

7. DNA Comparison – base pair differences
DNA comparison of gene
for beta-casein milk protein

8. Pakicetus – common ancestor of ungulates and Whales – 54 million years
Ambolocetus