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Explain the importance of fossils in deciding evolutionary relationships.

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Fossils
• give us the idea about the structure of organs/organisms
• tell us the period of their existence
• gives an idea about the geographic location of the organisms
• gives the evolutionary relationship between the existing and the extinct species of the organism.
•Obtained from the upper strata of rocks shows that the organisms are more complex than the ones at the lower strata.
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