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Evolution
The process by which living things change over generations through changes in their genomes.
Transitional fossils
Fossils with in-between features, such as a Late Devonian fish from Arctic Canada that is intermediate between finned fish and four-limbed animals.Source: Daeschler et al., 2006
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A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan (opens the original in a new tab)
Daeschler EB, Shubin NH, Jenkins FA Jr (2006). Nature 440:757-763.
Description of Tiktaalik roseae.
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