Assignment: Anthropology
Please address all of the questions below. As always, make sure you provide sufficient information. At least a paragraph per answer.
Darwin had very few fossils to support his theory of evolution by means of natural selection when he published On the Origin of Species. Why are fossils considered essential for the study of biological evolution? What can be learned by studying fossils?
Name and briefly describe the three main models, or hypotheses, of primate origins? What critiques or criticisms do you have?