Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 51.4, Problem 1R
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The connection between the need to conserve water and evolution of internal fertilization.
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Over the course of evolution, habitat of organisms changed from water to land. Earlier the life originated in water and fertilization was external as mode was water. As the life started drifting from water to land, mode of excretion and fertilization started changing.
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