To rate this resource, click a star: Recently, political unrest
in Madagascar has threatened to set back the islandís expanding
conservation efforts, and criminals have taken advantage of the
instability, looting protected forests for rare wood. This news
story from October 2009 turns back the clock to consider the
biogeographic processes that made Madagascar into a biodiversity
hotspot in the first place. UC Museum of Paleontology This
article includes a set of discussion and extension questions for
use in class, as well as a video podcast. It also includes hints
about related lessons that might be used in conjunction with
this one. Get more tips for using Evo in the News articles in
your classroom. - Present-day species evolved from earlier
species; the relatedness of organisms is the result of common
ancestry. - Geological change and biological evolution are
linked. - The patterns of lifeís diversity through time provide
evidence of evolution. - The fossil record provides evidence for
evolution. - Similari