ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Evolutionary Taxonomy, Species Problem, Cladistics
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Compare microevolution and macroevolution and explain how they are similar and how they differ. Describe how animals are classified and explain how humans fit into such classification as vertebrates and as mammals. Explain why evolutionary relationships are the basis for all scientific biological classifications. Explain what a fossil is and describe how different kinds of fossils are formed. Define the major characteristics of mammals, especially placental mammals. Explain how species are defined by biologists and how they originate from prior species. The bits and pieces of fossils are the remains of once living, breathing animals. We are primates, which in turn is one type of mammal and mammals are one of the major groups of vertebrates. How we connect: discovering the human place in the organic world. Classification in biology, the ordering of organisms into categories, such as orders, families, and genera, to show evolutionary relationships. Multicellular organisms that move about and ingest food are called animals.
