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What is the importance of fossils as an evidence of evolution?

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Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past.Fossils are important evidence for because they show that life on earth was once different from life found on earth today.
Usually, only a portion of an organism is preserved as a fossil, such as body fossils (bones and ), (faeces and footprints), and chemofossils (biochemical signals).
exoskeleton's trace fossils
Paleontologists can determine the age of fossils using methods like radiometric dating and categorize them to determine the evolutionary relationships between organisms.


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