Outline of evolution explained

See also: Index of evolutionary biology articles and Evolution (disambiguation). The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to evolution:In biology, evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological organisms over generations due to natural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift. Also known as descent with modification. Over time these evolutionary processes lead to formation of new species (speciation), changes within lineages (anagenesis), and loss of species (extinction). "Evolution" is also another name for evolutionary biology, the subfield of biology concerned with studying evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

Fundamentals about evolution

Basic principles

• • • • • • Natural speciation
            • • • • • • • • • • • • • Artificial speciation

History

• • • • • • • • • • By period or event
                    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • By field

Evolutionary theory and modelling

See also Basic principles (above)

Population genetics

• • Process
    • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Variation
                      • Key concepts
                        • • • • • • • • • • • Effects of selection
        • Related topics

Modelling

Taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny

Inference methods

• • • Probabilistic methods

Group Types

Evolution of biodiversity

Evolution of organisms

Evolution of other taxa

Evolution of other processes

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Evolutionary issues

Influence of evolutionary theory

• • See also Applications in other disciplines

Publications and organizations concerning evolution

Books

• – book by Julian Huxley (grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley); one of the most important books of modern evolutionary synthesis, published in 1942
• The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection – book by R.A. Fisher important in modern evolutionary synthesis, first published in 1930
• Genetics and the Origin of Species – 1937 book by Ukrainian-American evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky
• On the Origin of Species – seminal book by Charles Darwin concerning evolution by natural selection, first published in 1859
• Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist – book by zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, canonical publication of modern evolutionary synthesis, first published in 1942 by Columbia University Press
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory – technical book on macroevolutionary theory by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould

Organizations

Evolution scholars and researchers

Prominent evolutionary biologists

External links

General information

• • Web site: Evolution . New Scientist . May 30, 2011 .
• Web site: Evolution Resources from the National Academies . . May 30, 2011 .
• Web site: Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution . University of California, Berkeley . May 30, 2011 .
• Web site: Evolution of Evolution – 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" . . May 30, 2011 .
• Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).

Experiments concerning the process of biological evolution

• Web site: Experimental Evolution – Michigan State University. Lenski RE. Richard Lenski. July 31, 2013.
• Algorithms, games, and evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA

Online lectures

• Web site: The Making of the Fittest . Carroll SB . Sean B. Carroll . May 30, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718090526/http://www.molbio.wisc.edu/carroll/Fittest.html . July 18, 2011 .
• Web site: Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior . Stearns SC . Stephen C. Stearns . August 30, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110323050059/http://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/principles-of-evolution-ecology-and-behavior . March 23, 2011 .