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This news brief from October 2013 describes the discovery of four new species of legless lizard. Why don't we just call these animals snakes? Because of their evolutionary history...
UC Museum of Paleontology
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Correspondence to the Next Generation Science Standards is indicated in parentheses after each relevant concept. See our conceptual framework for details.
- An organism's features reflect its evolutionary history.
- Classification is based on evolutionary relationships.
- Not all similar traits are homologous; some are the result of convergent evolution.