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Evolutionary Biology

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Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor. These processes include natural selection, common descent, and speciation.

The discipline emerged through what Julian Huxley called the modern synthesis (of the 1930s) of understanding from several previously unrelated fields of biological research, including genetics, ecology, systematics and paleontology.

Current research has widened to cover the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution including sexual selection, genetic drift and biogeography. The newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates how embryonic development is controlled, thus creating a wider synthesis that integrates developmental biology with the fields covered by the earlier evolutionary synthesis.

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Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the study of the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth. Evolutionary biologists study the descent of species, and the origin of new species.

Subcategories

 

`    Subfields of evolutionary biology (9 C, 2 P)

`B

`    Evolutionary biologists (4 C, 312 P)

`D

`    Digital organisms (1 C, 9 P)

`E

`Evolution (9 C, 77 P)

Evolutionary neuroscience (4 P)

`    Exercise physiology (2 C, 85 P)

`H

`History of evolutionary biology (2 C, 36 P)

`    Hybridisation (biology) (4 C, 13 P)

`L

`Last common ancestors (7 P)

`    Evolutionary biology literature (4 C, 33 P)

`O

`Organisms by adaptation (13 C, 3 P)

`    Origin of life (4 C, 59 P)

`P

`Paleontology (16 C, 15 P)

Evolution by phenotype (16 P)

Population genetics (7 C, 144 P)

`    Evolutionary processes (5 C, 3 P)

`T

`Evolution by taxon (2 C, 3 P)

Evolutionary biology terminology (13 P)

`    Transitional fossils (1 C, 134 P)

`V

`Vestigial organs (3 P)

Pages

 

`    Evolutionary biology

    Fisherian runaway

    Genetic purging

    Index of evolutionary biology articles

`*

`    Earliest known life forms

    Evolution

    Portal:Evolutionary biology

`A

`    Abiogenesis

    Acquired characteristic

    Adaptation

    Adaptationism

    Adaptive type

    Advertising in biology

    Alloenzyme

    Allofeeding

    Allopatric speciation

    Allorecognition

    Alternatives to evolution by natural selection

    Anastomosis

    Ancestral reconstruction

    Ancestral sequence reconstruction

    Antagonistic Coevolution

    Antimicrobial resistance

    List of antibiotic resistant bacteria

    Antibiotic use in livestock

    Arboreal theory

    Arctometatarsal

    Evolutionary arms race

    Assembly rules

    Atavism

    Attachment theory

    Autoconstructive evolution

`B

`    Bacterial phylodynamics

    Bacteriophage experimental evolution

    Bak–Sneppen model

    Baldwin effect

    Bateman's principle

    Bateson–Dobzhansky–Muller model

    Behavioral modernity

    Behavioral plasticity

    Andrew Berry

    Bet hedging (biology)

    Biological specificity

    Biomimetics

    Body plan

    Breeding back

`C

`    Carcinisation

    Catagenesis (biology)

    Cephalization

    Character displacement

    Charles Darwin Research Station

    Chemical defense

    Chimeric gene

    Chronospecies

    Cladistics

    Cladogenesis

    Cleaning symbiosis

    Cline (biology)

    Co-adaptation

    Co-operation (evolution)

    Coevolution

    Common descent

    Community genetics

    Comparative biology

    Comparative cognition

    Comparative genomics

    Competitive altruism

    Contest competition

    Contralateral brain

    Contribution of epigenetic modifications to evolution

    Convergent evolution

    Cope's rule

    CoRR hypothesis

    Countergradient variation

    Court jester hypothesis

    Crown group

`D

`    Darwin (unit)

    Darwinian anthropology

    Darwinian Demon

    Darwinian literary studies

    Darwinian puzzle

    Debate about Cambrian lophotrochozoans

    Deep homology

    Deployment cost–benefit selection in physiology

    Developmental systems theory

    Devolution (biology)

    Digital ecology

    Digital organism

    Directed evolution

    Divergent evolution

    Dollo's law of irreversibility

    Dorkovo Museum

    Dysgenics

`E

`    E. coli long-term evolution experiment

    The eclipse of Darwinism

    Ecological inheritance

    Ecological speciation

    EggNOG (database)

    EICA hypothesis

    Eichler's rule

    Emergent evolution

    Emotional selection

    Empathic concern

    Encephalization

    Endless Forms Most Beautiful (book)

    Entomophily

    Error threshold (evolution)

    Escalation hypothesis

    Evidence of common descent

    Evo-devo gene toolkit

    Evolution as fact and theory

    Evolution of ageing

    Evolution of biological complexity

    Evolution of biparental care in tropical frogs

    Evolution of cells

    Evolution of eusociality

    Evolution of metal ions in biological systems

    Evolution of morality

    Evolution of photosynthesis

    Evolution of sexual reproduction

    Evolution of snake venom

    Evolutionary anachronism

    Evolutionary baggage

    Evolutionary capacitance

    Evolutionary developmental biology

    Evolutionary dynamics

    Evolutionary ecology

    Evolutionary fauna

    Evolutionary history of life

    Evolutionary landscape

    Evolutionary medicine

    Evolutionary mismatch

    Evolutionary physiology

    Evolutionary pressure

    History of evolutionary psychology

    Evolutionary rescue

    Evolutionary suicide

    Evolutionary Synthetic Biology

    Evolutionary Theory (journal)

    Evolutionary trap

    Evolvability

    Evolving digital ecological networks

    Exaptation

    Exercise physiology

    Experimental evolution

    Extended female sexuality

    Extinction

    Extinction event

`F

`    Facilitated variation

    Female Sabotage

    Female sperm storage

    FIND Technology

    Fisher's geometric model

    Fisher's principle

    Fitness (biology)

    Fluctuating selection

    Flying primate hypothesis

    Foster's rule

    Founder effect

    Four Fs (evolution)

    FSTAT (software)

`G

`    GADV-protein world hypothesis

    Gard model

    Gene pool

    Gene-centered view of evolution

    Genetic anthropomorphism

    Genetic assimilation

    Genetic divergence

    Genetic drift

    Genetic erosion

    Genetic memory (biology)

    Genetic pollution

    Human genetic resistance to malaria

    Genic capture

    Genomic evolution of birds

    Geodakyan's evolutionary theory of sex

    Green-beard effect

    Grit, not grass hypothesis

`H

`    Haldane's dilemma

    Haldane's rule

    Haplotype convergence

    Harrison's rule

    Helping behavior

    Heterotopy

    High-altitude adaptation in humans

    Hill–Robertson effect

    History of attachment theory

    Timeline of the evolutionary history of life

    History of speciation

    Hjernevask

    HKA test

    Homo consumericus

    Homology (biology)

    Homology (psychology)

    Homoplasy

    Horizontal evolution

    Horizontal gene transfer in evolution

    Host switch

    Host–parasite coevolution

    Human evolutionary developmental biology

H

`    Human mitochondrial molecular clock

    Hybrid (biology)

    Hybrid iguana

`I

`    Illegitimate receiver

    Inbreeding avoidance

    Inclusive fitness

    Inclusive fitness in humans

    Infinite alleles model

    Inheritance of acquired characteristics

    Insular dwarfism

    Interactor

    Intergradation

    Interlocus sexual conflict

    Intragenomic conflict

    Intralocus sexual conflict

    Inversion (evolutionary biology)

    Island gigantism

`J

`    Jeewanu

`K

`    Satoshi Kanazawa

    Karyoklepty

    Karyotype

    Key innovation

    Kin selection

    Koinophilia

`L

`    Lack's principle

    Largest-scale trends in evolution

    Last universal common ancestor

    Lek paradox

    Lilliput effect

    List of examples of convergent evolution

    List of Y-DNA single-nucleotide polymorphisms

    Living fossil

    Local adaptation

    The Lucifer Principle

`M

`    Macroevolution

    Mate choice

    Maternal effect

    Maternal effect dominant embryonic arrest

    Medea hypothesis

    Megabias

    Megaevolution

    Megatrajectory

    Mesowear

    Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation

    Microbial cooperation

    Microbial mat

    Microbial population biology

    Microchimerism

    Molecular drive

    Molecular paleontology

    Protein moonlighting

    Mosaic coevolution

    Mosaic evolution

    Most recent common ancestor

    Mother's curse

    Muller's ratchet

    Multicellular organism

    Mutant

    Mutation

    Mutation rate

    Mutationism

`N

`    Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

    Neo-Darwinism

    Neoteny

    Neoteny in humans

    Neutral mutation

    Neutral network (evolution)

    Niche construction

    Niche segregation

    Nocturnal bottleneck

    List of non-fictional lost worlds

    Noogenesis

`O

`    Obcell

    Oceanic dispersal

    Ohno's law

    Organisms at high altitude

    Orgel's rules

    User:OrientationEB/sandbox

    OrthoDB

    Orthologous MAtrix

    Oscarella carmela

    Ovulatory shift hypothesis

`P

`    Paleobiology

    Paleontology

    Pan-genome

    Pangenesis

    Parallel evolution

    Parapatric speciation

    Parasite load

    Paraspecies

    Parent–offspring conflict

    Parental care

    Parental investment

    Paternal care

    Peripatric speciation

    Pharyngula

    Phenotypic plasticity

    Philopatry

    Phyletic gradualism

    Phylogenesis

    Phylogeny (psychoanalysis)

    Phylogeography

    Pithecometra principle

    Plant evolutionary developmental biology

    Pollination syndrome

    Polyploid complex

    Population biology

    Population genetics

    Precambrian body plans

    Precambrian rabbit

    Premature convergence

    Preservation breeding

    Price equation

    Price equation examples

    Primitive (phylogenetics)

    Primordial soup

    Promoter activity

    Protocell

    Pseudoextinction

    Evolutionary psychology

    Punctuated equilibrium

    Punctuated gradualism

`Q

`    Quantum evolution

    Quasi-linkage equilibrium

    Quasispecies model

`R

`    Rapid modes of evolution

    Rapoport's rule

    Reciprocal altruism

    Reciprocity (evolution)

    Recurrent evolution

    Red Queen hypothesis

    RedToL

    User:Reillymcarr/sandbox

    Reproductive isolation

    Reproductive success

    Resurrection ecology

    Reticulate evolution

    Ring species

    RNA-based evolution

    Robustness (evolution)

    Rosa's rule

    Rotating locomotion in living systems

`S

`    Safety in numbers

    Saltation (biology)

    Savannah hypothesis

    Sea Monsters (TV series)

    Selection coefficient

    Selection shadow

    Self-preservation

    Seminal RNase

    Sequence homology

    Sequence space (evolution)

    Serial homology

    Sex-limited genes

    Sexual coercion

    Sexual conflict

    Sexy son hypothesis

    Shadow life

    Shifting balance theory

    Sickness behavior

    Signalling theory

    Sister group

    Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship

    Sociobiology

    Somatic evolution in cancer

    Spandrel (biology)

    Speciation

    User:Azcolvin429/speciation developments 2

    Evidence for speciation by reinforcement

    Glossary of speciation

    Reinforcement (speciation)

    Species complex

    Sperm competition

    Split networks

    Stabilizing selection

    State switching

    Streamlining theory

    Strong reciprocity

    Structuralism (biology)

    Sugar signal transduction

    Sulphobes

    Suppressor mutation

    Swamping argument

    Swarm (Garcia novel)

    Symbiogenesis

    Sympatric speciation

    Syntelog

    Systematics

`T

`    Talk.origins

    Taxon in disguise

    Teleology in biology

    Timetree

    Toxicofera

    Transitional fossil

    Transmutation of species

    Triassic–Jurassic extinction event

    Trivers–Willard hypothesis

    Turkana Basin

`U

`    Unit of selection

    Universal Darwinism

U

`    Urbilaterian

    Urmetazoan

`V

`    Vacant niche

    Variome

    Vestigial response

    Vestigiality

    Vicar of Bray (scientific hypothesis)

    Viral decay acceleration

    Viral dynamics

    Viral eukaryogenesis

    Viral evolution

    Viral phylodynamics

    Von Baer's laws (embryology)

`W

`    Weak Selection

    Will to live

    Woese's dogma

    Wonderful life theory

    World Summit on Evolution

`Z

`    Zero-Force Evolutionary Law

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