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Animal Hands

    Data Sheet

 

Hand functions include:

Flying                                grasping/manipulating                                  

Swimming                         walking/running

Animals shown include:

Beluga Whale                 human                hyena               lion                macaque monkey

Sun bear                         owl                     panda               sea lion         zebra      baboon

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Animal Hands Data Analysis

 

  1. What features of the “animal hands” were helpful in determining which X-ray belonged to each species?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Did you find evidence for homologous structure (same structure serving different functions) between the bones of the species we studied? Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. How does this information relate to the topic of evolution and common ancestry? Did you see evidence to support or discredit these ideas?