Patterns of Evolution

• CHANGE IN LIVING THINGS

Soapberry Bugs feeding on Balloon vine fruit

Golden Raintree fruit flat

Images from Scott Carroll

• VESTIGIAL ORGANS

Starr & Taggart. 1989

• FOSSILS AND EXTINCTION

• TRANSITIONAL FORMS

From evolution.berkeley.edu

Natural Selection

Structural Homology

Mickoleit (2004) Phylogenetische Systematik der Wirbeltiere, Friedrich Pfeil, Munich.

Developmental Homology

Richardson. 1998. Developmental Biology.

Molecular Homology

Olfactory Pseudogenes in apes from biologos.org

J Bret Bennington. Hofstra.edu