Answer:
Provide some of the evidence presented by Darwin from his voyage
on the Beaglethat supports the theory of common descent:
- Charles Darwin commenced his journey on H.M.S Beagle and spent
five years.
- Based on Darwin's theory of common descent, all organisms
descended or originated from a common ancestor.
- Fossils and similarities between relative organisms
- vestigial structure - bump-like thickening on the helix of the
auricle (exterior ear) / ear bumps
- finches of the Galapagos Islands
- ancient organism remains
- Fossils collected in South America
- Glyptodon fragments that were similar to armadillos
- Fossils collected from Falklands
- Barchipod shell fossils
- Similarities of embryos
- similarities in embryonic development
- Breeding - variations in domesticated plants and animals
- Fossil layers - Darwin observed that fossils in older layers
are more primitive than fossils present in upper layers.