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Students learn
- outline the impact on the evolution of plants and animals of
- changes in physical conditions in the environment
- changes in chemical conditions in the environment
- competition for resource
- plan, choose equipment or resources and perform a first-hand investigation to model natural selection
- analyse information from secondary sources to prepare a case study to show how an environmental change can lead to changes in a species
- perform a first-hand investigation or gather information from secondary sources (including photographs/ diagrams/models) to observe, analyse and compare the structure of a range of vertebrate forelimbs
- use available evidence to analyse, using a named example, how advances in technology have changed scientific thinking about evolutionary relationships
- analyse information from secondary sources on the historical development of theories of evolution and use available evidence to assess social and political influences on these developments
- describe, using specific examples, how the theory of evolution is supported by the following areas of study: palaeontology, including fossils that have been considered as transitional forms
- biogeography
- comparative embryology
- comparative anatomy
- biochemistry
- explain how Darwin/Wallace’s theory of evolution by natural selection and isolation accounts for divergent evolution and convergent evolution
