Index of evolutionary biology articles explained

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This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

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abiogenesisadaptationadaptive mutationadaptive radiationalleleallele frequencyallochronic speciationallopatric speciationaltruism – – anti-predator adaptationapplications of evolutionaposematismArchaeopteryxaquatic adaptationartificial selectionatavism

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Henry Walter Batesbiological organisationBrassica oleraceabreed

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Cambrian explosion – camouflage – Sean B. Carrollcatagenesisgene-centered view of evolutioncephalizationSergei Chetverikovchronobiologychronospeciesclade – cladistics – climatic adaptationcoalescent theoryco-evolutionco-operation – coefficient of relationship – common descentconvergent evolutioncreation–evolution controversycultivarconspecific song preference

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Darwin (unit)Charles DarwinDarwinismDarwin's finches – Richard Dawkins – directed mutagenesisDirected evolutiondirectional selectionTheodosius Dobzhanskydog breedingdomesticationdomestication of the horse

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E. coli long-term evolution experimentecological genetics – ecological selection – ecological speciationEndless Forms Most Beautifulendosymbiosiserror threshold (evolution)evidence of common descentevolutionevolutionary arms raceevolutionary capacitance

Evolution: of ageingof the brainof cetaceansof complexity – of dinosaurs – of the eyeof fishof the horseof insectsof human intelligenceof mammalian auditory ossiclesof mammalsof monogamy – of sex – of sireniansof tetrapodsof the wolf

evolutionary developmental biologyevolutionary dynamicsevolutionary game theoryevolutionary history of lifeevolutionary history of plantsevolutionary medicineevolutionary neuroscience – evolutionary psychology – evolutionary radiationevolutionarily stable strategyevolutionary taxonomyevolutionary treeevolvabilityexperimental evolutionexaptationextinction

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Joe Felsenstein – R.A. Fisher – Fisher's reproductive valuefitnessfitness landscapeE.B. Fordfossil

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Galápagos Islandsgenegene-centric view of evolutiongene duplicationgene flowgene poolgenetic driftgenetic hitchhikinggenetic recombinationgenetic variationgenotypegene–environment correlationgene–environment interactiongenotype–phenotype distinction – Stephen Jay Gould – gradualismPeter and Rosemary Grantgroup selection

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J. B. S. HaldaneW. D. HamiltonHardy–Weinberg principleheredityhierarchy of lifehistory of evolutionary thoughthistory of speciationhomologous chromosomeshomology (biology)horizontal gene transfer – human evolution – human evolutionary geneticshuman vestigialityJulian HuxleyThomas Henry Huxley

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inclusive fitnessinsect evolutionInvertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)

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karyotypekin selectionMotoo Kimurakoinophilia

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Jean-Baptiste LamarckLamarckismlandracelanguagelast universal common ancestorlevel of support for evolutionRichard Lewontinlist of gene familieslist of human evolution fossilslife-history theoryWen-Hsiung Liliving fossilsCharles Lyell

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macroevolution – macromutation – The Major Transitions in EvolutionmaladaptationThe Malay Archipelagomass extinctions – mating systems – John Maynard SmithErnst MayrGregor MendelmemeticsMendelian inheritanceMesozoic–Cenozoic radiationmicroevolutionmicropaleontology (micropaleobiology) – Miller–Urey experiment – mimicry – Mitochondrial Evemodern evolutionary synthesismolecular clockmolecular evolutionmolecular phylogenymolecular systematicsmosaic evolutionmost recent common ancestorHermann Joseph MullerMuller's ratchet – mutation – mutational meltdown

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natural selection – natural genetic engineeringnature versus nurtureNeo-Darwinismneutral theory of molecular evolution – Baron Franz Nopcsa – "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"

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Susumu OhnoAleksandr OparinOn The Origin of SpeciesOrdovician radiationorigin of birds – origin of language – orthologous genes

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paleoanthropologypaleobiologypaleobotanypaleontologypaleozoology (of vertebratesof invertebrates) – parallel evolutionparaphyleticparticulate inheritancepeppered mothpeppered moth evolutionperipatric speciationphenotypephylogeneticsphylogenyphylogenetic treePikaiaPlant evolution – polymorphism (biology) – populationpopulation bottleneckpopulation dynamicspopulation geneticspreadaptationprehistoric archaeologyPrinciples of GeologyGeorge R. PricePrice equation – punctuated equilibrium

Q

quantum evolutionquasispecies model

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race (biology)Red Queen hypothesisrecapitulation theoryrecent African origin of modern humansrecombinationBernhard Renschreinforcement (speciation)reproductive coevolution in Ficusr/K selection theory

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selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Gene – sexual selection – signalling theorysociobiologysocial effects of evolutionary theoryspecies – speciation – species flock – sperm competitionstabilizing selectionstrain (biology)subspeciessurvival of the fittestsymbiogenesissystematicsGeorge Gaylord SimpsonG. Ledyard Stebbins

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Tiktaaliktimeline of evolutiontrait (biological)transgressive phenotypetransitional fossiltransposontree of lifetriangle of U

U

unit of selection

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variety (botany)vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – viral evolutionThe Voyage of the Beaglevestigiality

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Alfred Russel Wallace – Wallace effectWallace LineWallaceaGeorge C. Williams (biologist)Edward O. WilsonSewall Wright

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Y-chromosomal AdamY-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups

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