Index of evolutionary biology articles

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

Charles Darwin founded modern evolutionary biology with his 1859 book, The Origin of Species.

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abiogenesisadaptation – adaptive mutation – adaptive radiationalleleallele frequencyallochronic speciationallopatric speciationaltruism anagenesisanti-predator adaptationapplications of evolutionaposematismArchaeopteryxaquatic adaptationartificial selectionatavism

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Henry Walter Batesbiological organisationBrassica oleraceabreed

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Cambrian explosioncamouflageSean B. Carrollcatagenesisgene-centered view of evolutioncephalization – Sergei Chetverikov – chronobiologychronospeciescladecladistics – climatic adaptation – coalescent theoryco-evolutionco-operationcoefficient of relationshipcommon descentconvergent evolutioncreation–evolution controversycultivar – conspecific song preference

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Darwin (unit) – Charles DarwinDarwinismDarwin's finchesRichard Dawkins – directed mutagenesis – Directed 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 complexityof dinosaursof the eyeof fishof the horseof insectsof human intelligenceof mammalian auditory ossiclesof mammalsof monogamyof sexof sireniansof tetrapodsof the wolf

evolutionary developmental biology – evolutionary dynamics – evolutionary game theoryevolutionary history of lifeevolutionary history of plantsevolutionary medicineevolutionary neuroscienceevolutionary psychologyevolutionary radiationevolutionarily stable strategyevolutionary taxonomyevolutionary treeevolvabilityexperimental evolutionexaptationextinction

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Joe FelsensteinR.A. Fisher – Fisher's reproductive value – fitnessfitness 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 distinctionStephen Jay GouldgradualismPeter 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 transferhuman evolutionhuman 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 Lewontin – list of gene families – list of human evolution fossilslife-history theory – Wen-Hsiung Li – living fossilsCharles Lyell

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macroevolutionmacromutationThe Major Transitions in EvolutionmaladaptationThe Malay Archipelagomass extinctionsmating systemsJohn Maynard SmithErnst MayrGregor MendelmemeticsMendelian inheritance – Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation – microevolutionmicropaleontology (a.k.a. micropaleobiology) – Miller–Urey experimentmimicryMitochondrial Evemodern evolutionary synthesismolecular clockmolecular evolutionmolecular phylogenymolecular systematicsmosaic evolutionmost recent common ancestorHermann Joseph MullerMuller's ratchetmutation – mutational meltdown

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natural selection – natural genetic engineering – nature 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 Ohno – Aleksandr OparinOn The Origin of SpeciesOrdovician radiationorigin of birdsorigin of languageorthologous genes

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paleoanthropologypaleobiologypaleobotanypaleontologypaleozoology (of vertebratesof invertebrates) – parallel evolutionparaphyletic – particulate inheritance – peppered mothpeppered moth evolutionperipatric speciationphenotypephylogeneticsphylogenyphylogenetic treePikaiaPlant evolutionpolymorphism (biology)populationpopulation bottleneckpopulation dynamicspopulation geneticspreadaptationprehistoric archaeologyPrinciples of GeologyGeorge R. PricePrice equationpunctuated equilibrium

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quantum evolutionquasispecies model

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race (biology)Red Queen hypothesisrecapitulation theoryrecent African origin of modern humansrecombination – Bernhard Rensch – reinforcement (speciation) – reproductive coevolution in Ficusr/K selection theory

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selectionselective breedingselfish DNAThe Selfish Genesexual selectionsignalling theorysociobiologysocial effects of evolutionary theoryspeciesspeciationspecies flocksperm competitionstabilizing selectionstrain (biology)subspeciessurvival of the fittestsymbiogenesissystematicsGeorge Gaylord SimpsonG. Ledyard Stebbins

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Tiktaaliktimeline of evolutiontrait (biological) – transgressive phenotype – transitional fossiltransposontree of lifetriangle of U

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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 WallaceWallace 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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