# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- develop an appreciation of the huge variety of different mammals that exist on Earth today

- see how fossil evidence can help us to understand evolutionary history

- understand how the structure of DNA can help us to detect differences between different species

- apply the techniques of DNA analysis to work out which mammals are most closely related to each other

- appreciate the importance of bringing together evidence from different sources.

OpenLearn - School activities: Evolutionary tree of mammals
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