NSES Content Standard C  Life Science: Biological evolution Grades 9-12, page 185 The millions of different species of plants, animals, and microorganisms that live on earth today are related by descent from common ancestors.

 
Benchmark 5F The Living Environment: Evolution of Life
Grades 9-12, page 125
The basic idea of biological evolution is that the earth's present-day species developed from earlier, distinctly different species.