https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_biology
For the textbook, see Evolutionary Biology (textbook).
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.
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` Subfields of evolutionary biology (9 C, 2 P)
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` Evolutionary biologists (4 C, 312 P)
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` Digital organisms (1 C, 9 P)
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`Evolution (9 C, 77 P)
Evolutionary neuroscience (4 P)
` Exercise physiology (2 C, 85 P)
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`History of evolutionary biology (2 C, 36 P)
` Hybridisation (biology) (4 C, 13 P)
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`Last common ancestors (7 P)
` Evolutionary biology literature (4 C, 33 P)
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`Organisms by adaptation (13 C, 3 P)
` Origin of life (4 C, 59 P)
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`Paleontology (16 C, 15 P)
Evolution by phenotype (16 P)
Population genetics (7 C, 144 P)
` Evolutionary processes (5 C, 3 P)
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`Evolution by taxon (2 C, 3 P)
Evolutionary biology terminology (13 P)
` Transitional fossils (1 C, 134 P)
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`Vestigial organs (3 P)
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Index of evolutionary biology articles
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` Earliest known life forms
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` 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
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` 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
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` 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
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` 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
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` 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
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` 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
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OrthoDB
Orthologous MAtrix
Oscarella carmela
Ovulatory shift hypothesis
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` 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
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Reproductive isolation
Reproductive success
Resurrection ecology
Reticulate evolution
Ring species
RNA-based evolution
Robustness (evolution)
Rosa's rule
Rotating locomotion in living systems
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` 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
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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
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` 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
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` 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
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` Zero-Force Evolutionary Law
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