• [History of life: Grades 13-16] During the course of evolution, only a small percentage of species have survived until today.
• [History of life: Grades 13-16] Mass extinctions occur.
• [History of life: Grades 13-16] Extinction can result from environmental change.
• [Evidence of evolution: Grades 13-16] The fossil record provides evidence for evolution.
• [Evidence of evolution: Grades 13-16] The fossil record documents the biodiversity of the past.
• [Evidence of evolution: Grades 13-16] The fossil record documents patterns of extinction and the appearance of new forms.
• [Nature of science: Grades 13-16] A hallmark of science is exposing ideas to testing.
• [Nature of science: Grades 13-16] Scientists can test ideas about events and processes long past, very distant, and not directly observable.
• [Nature of science: Grades 13-16] Scientists may explore many different hypotheses to explain their observations.
• [Studying evolution: Grades 13-16] As with other scientific disciplines, evolutionary biology has applications that factor into everyday life, for example in agriculture, biodiversity and conservation biology, and medicine and health.

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