Introduction edit

• Introduction to evolution – Non-technical overview of the subject of biological evolution
• Evolution – Change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations
• Evolution as fact and theory – Discussion of the meaning and usage of the terms evolution, fact and theory

Basic principles edit

• Macroevolution – Evolution on a scale at or above the level of species
  • Speciation – Evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species
    • Natural speciation
      • Allopatric speciation – Speciation that occurs between geographically isolated populations
      • Peripatric speciation – Speciation in which a new species is formed from an isolated smaller peripheral population
      • Parapatric speciation – Speciation within a population where subpopulations are reproductively isolated
      • Sympatric speciation – Evolution of a new species from an ancestor in the same location
    • Artificial speciation
      • Animal husbandry – Management, selective breeding, and care of farm animals by humans
      • Plant breeding – Humans changing traits, ornamental/crops
      • Genetic engineering – Manipulation of an organism's genome
    • Hybrid speciation – Form of speciation involving hybridization between two different species
  • Despeciation – Loss of a species of animal due to its combining with another species
  • Anagenesis – Gradual evolutionary change in a species without splitting
  • Extinction – Termination of a taxon by the death of its last member
• Microevolution – Change in allele frequencies that occurs over time within a population
  • Artificial selection – Breeding used to develop desired characteristics
  • Natural selection – Mechanism of evolution by differential survival and reproduction of individuals
    • Sexual selection – Mode of natural selection involving the choosing of and competition for mates
  • Mutation – Alteration in the nucleotide sequence of a genome
  • Gene flow – Transfer of genetic variation from one population to another
  • Genetic drift – Concept in genetics

Subfields edit

• Biology – Science that studies life
  • Evolutionary biology – Study of the processes that produced the diversity of life
    • Evolutionary developmental biology – Comparison of organism developmental processes
  • Genetics – Science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms
• Biogeography – Study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time
• Ecological genetics – Study of genetics in natural populations
• Evolutionary biology – Study of the processes that produced the diversity of life
  • Evolutionary developmental biology – Comparison of organism developmental processes
• Evolutionary ecology – Interaction of biology and evolution
• Evolutionary physiology – Study of changes in physiological characteristics
• Evolutionary taxonomy – Form of biological classification
• Experimental evolution – Use of laboratory and field experiments to explore evolutionary dynamics
• Molecular evolution – Process of change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules across generations
• Phylogenetics – Study of evolutionary relationships between organisms
• Population genetics – Subfield of genetics
• Paleontology – Study of life before the Holocene epoch
  • Paleovirology – The study of ancient viruses
  • Timeline of paleontology – Timeline of notable events in the sudy of ancient life
• Systematics – Branch of biology

History edit

• Charles Darwin – English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
  • On the Origin of Species – 1859 book on evolution by Charles Darwin
  • Caricatures of Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory in 19th-century England
  • Darwinism – Theory of biological evolution
• History of evolutionary thought
  • By period or event
    • Evolutionary ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment – Changes in evolutionary philosophies
    • Transmutation of species – 18th and 19th-century evolutionary ideas
    • 1860 Oxford evolution debate – Discussion about evolution in Oxford, England
    • Neo-Darwinism – Used to describe the combination of natural selection and genetics
    • The eclipse of Darwinism – Period when evolution was widely accepted, but natural selection was not
    • Evolutionary progress – Hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve towards some goal
    • Scopes Trial – 1925 US legal case in TennesseePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
    • Modern synthesis – Fusion of natural selection with Mendelian inheritance
      • Extended evolutionary synthesis – Set of theoretical concepts concerning evolutionary biology
    • Current research – Study of the processes that produced the diversity of life
  • By field
    • Evolutionary developmental biology – Comparison of organism developmental processes
    • History of evolutionary psychology
    • History of molecular evolution – History of the field of study of molecular evolution
    • History of paleontology – History of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record
• Social effect of evolutionary theory – Effects on human societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversityPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

See also Basic principles (above)

Population genetics edit

• Population genetics – Subfield of genetics
• Process
  • Mutation – Alteration in the nucleotide sequence of a genome
  • Selection – Mechanism of evolution by differential survival and reproduction of individualsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
    • Natural selection – Mechanism of evolution by differential survival and reproduction of individuals
      • Sexual selection – Mode of natural selection involving the choosing of and competition for mates
    • Artificial selection – Breeding used to develop desired characteristics
    • Ecological selection – Natural selection without sexual selection
  • Gene flow – Transfer of genetic variation from one population to another
  • Genetic drift – Concept in genetics
    • Small population size – Statistical effects of small numbers on a population
    • Population bottleneck – Effects of a sharp reduction in numbers on the diversity and robustness of a population
    • Founder effect – Effect in population genetics
    • Coalescent theory – Model for tracing the history of genetic variation
• Variation
  • Genetic variation – Difference in DNA among individuals or populations
    • Genetic diversity – Total number of genetic characteristics in a species
    • Gene frequency – The relative frequency of a variant of a gene at a particular locus in a population
    • Polymorphism (biology) – Occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms in the population of a species
• Key concepts
  • Hardy-Weinberg law – Principle in genetics
  • Genetic linkage – Tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be inherited together
  • Identity by descent – Identical nucleotide sequence due to inheritance without recombination from a common ancestor
  • Linkage disequilibrium – Allele association in population genetics
  • Fisher's fundamental theorem – Principle relating genetic variance to fitness
  • Neutral theory – Theory of evolution by changes at the molecular level
  • Shifting balance theory – One version of the theory of evolution
  • Price equation – Description of how a trait or gene changes in frequency over time
  • Coefficient of relationship – Mathematical guess about inbreeding
  • Fitness – Expected reproductive success
  • Heritability – Estimation of effect of genetic variation on phenotypic variation of a trait
• Effects of selection
  • Genetic hitchhiking – Incidental selection of non-harmful genes which are close to a beneficial gene on the same DNA chain
  • Negative selection (natural selection) – Selective removal of alleles that are deleterious
• Related topics
  • Microevolution – Change in allele frequencies that occurs over time within a population
  • Evolutionary game theory – Application of game theory to evolving populations in biology
  • Fitness landscape – Model used to visualise relationship between genotypes and reproductive success
  • Genetic genealogy – DNA testing to infer relationships
  • Quantitative genetics – Study of the inheritance of continuously variable traits

Evolutionary phenomena edit

• Adaptation – Process that fits organisms to their environment
• Adaptive radiation – A process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species
• Coevolution – Two or more species influencing each other's evolution
• Concerted evolution
• Convergent evolution – Independent evolution of similar features
  • List of examples of convergent evolution – Examples of separate lineages of organisms developing similar characteristics
• Divergent evolution – Accumulation of differences between closely related species populations, leading to speciation
  • Divergent evolution in animals – Accumulation of differences between closely related species populations, leading to speciationPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Evolution of ageing – Study of the evolutionary development of ageing processes
• Evolution of biological complexity – Tendency for maximum complexity to increase over time, though without any overall direction
• Evolution of multicellularity – The development of organisms that consists of more than one cell from unicellular ancestors
• Evolution of photosynthesis – Origin and subsequent evolution of the process by which light energy is used to synthesize sugars
• Evolution of sexual reproduction – How sexually reproducing multicellular organisms could have evolved from a common ancestor species
• Evolutionary arms race – Competition of sets of genes, traits, or species, that develop adaptations against each other
• Evolutionary capacitance – Evolutionary biology hypothesis
• Evolutionary fauna
• Evolutionary pressure – Any cause that reduces reproductive success in a proportion of a population
• Evolutionary radiation – Increase in taxonomic diversity or morphological disparity
• Evolutionary trap – Cases in which an evolved, and presumably adaptive, trait has suddenly become maladaptive
• Evolvability – Capacity of a system for adaptive evolution
• Exaptation – Function of trait, shifted by evolution
• Extinction – Termination of a taxon by the death of its last member
• Fitness (biology) – Expected reproductive success
  • Inclusive fitness – Measure of evolutionary success based on the number of offspring the individual supports
    • Kin selection – Evolutionary strategy favoring relatives
  • Reproductive success – Passing of genes on to the next generation in a way that they too can pass on those genes
• Genetic recombination – Production of offspring with combinations of traits that differ from those found in either parent
• Horizontal gene transfer in evolution – Evolutionary consequences of transfer of genetic material between organisms of different taxa
• Human evolution (origins of society and culture) – Transition of human species to anthropologically modern behaviorPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Inversion (evolutionary biology) – Hypothesis in developmental biology
• Mosaic evolution – Evolution of characters at various rates both within and between species
• Parallel evolution – Similar evolution in distinct species
• Quantum evolution – Evolution where transitional forms are particularly unstable and do not last long
• Recurrent evolution – The repeated evolution of a particular character
• Robustness (evolution) – Persistence of a biological trait under uncertain conditions
• Speciation – Evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species

Modelling edit

• Emergent evolution – Evolutionary biology
• Epic of evolution – Evolutionary narrative that blends views
• Evolution window – Narrow band of mutation step size that is conducive to significant evolutionary progress
• Evolutionary dynamics – Study of mathematical principles in evolutionary biology
• Evolutionary game theory – Application of game theory to evolving populations in biology
• Evolutionary graph theory – Approach to studying how topology affects evolution of a population
• Evolutionary invasion analysis – Mathematical modeling of phenotypic evolution
• Largest-scale trends in evolution – Limits of increased complexity over time

Fundamentals edit

• Taxonomy – Science of naming, defining and classifying organisms
  • Alpha taxonomy – The discipline of finding, describing, and naming taxa, particularly species
  • Biological classification – The science of identifying, describing, defining and naming groups of biological organisms
  • Binomial nomenclature – System of identifying species of organisms using a two-part name
  • Evolutionary taxonomy – Form of biological classification
  • Catalogue of life – Online database and index of taxa
  • Homonym (biology) – Scientific name that is identical in spelling to a name with a different type
  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System – Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes
  • International Code of Zoological Nomenclature – Code of scientific nomenclature for animals
  • International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants – Code of scientific nomenclature
  • Linnaean taxonomy – Rank based classification system for organisms
  • Phenetics – Attempt to classify organisms based on overall similarity
  • Species 2000 – Federated taxonomic database system for species checklists
  • Taxon – Grouping of biological populations
  • Taxonomic rank – Level in a taxonomic hierarchy
  • Type (biology) – Specimen(s) to which a scientific name is formally attached
  • Species description – Formal description of a discovered species
• Systematics – Branch of biology
  • Cladogram – Diagram used to show relations among groups of organisms with common origins
  • Phylogenetic tree – Branching diagram of evolutionary relationships between organisms
• Phylogenetics – Study of evolutionary relationships between organisms
  • Cladistics – Method of biological systematics in evolutionary biology
  • Computational phylogenetics – Application of computational algorithms, methods and programs to phylogenetic analyses
  • Common descent – Characteristic of a group of organisms with a common ancestor
  • Evidence of common descent – Common ancestor evolutionary evidence
  • Evolutionary grade – Non-monophyletic grouping of organisms united by morphological or physiological characteristics
  • Lineage (evolution) – Sequence of populations, organisms, cells, or genes that form a line of descent
  • Molecular phylogenetics – Branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences
  • Most recent common ancestor – Most recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly descended

Basic concepts of phylogenetics edit

• Phylogenetic tree – Branching diagram of evolutionary relationships between organisms
• Phylogenetic network – Graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships, including reticulation events
• Long branch attraction – Systematic error in phylogenetics
• Clade – Group of a common ancestor and all descendants
• Grade – Non-monophyletic grouping of organisms united by morphological or physiological characteristics
• Ghost lineage – Phylogenetic lineage that is inferred to exist but has no fossil record

Inference methods edit

• Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics) – Optimality criterion in which the shortest possible tree that explains the data is considered best
• Minimum evolution
• Probabilistic methods
  • Maximum likelihood estimation – Method of estimating the parameters of a statistical model, given observations
  • Bayesian inference – Statistical method for molecular phylogenetics
• Distance matrices in phylogeny – Matrices used in construction of phylogenetic trees
  • Neighbor joining – Bottom-up clustering method for creating phylogenetic trees
  • Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean (UPGMA) – Agglomerative hierarchical clustering method
  • Least squares inference in phylogeny – Generation of phylogenetic trees based on an observed matrix of pairwise genetic distances
• Three-taxon analysis – Cladistic based method of phylogenetic reconstruction

Current topics edit

• PhyloCode, also known as International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature – Proposed code of nomenclature for clades
• DNA barcoding – Method of species identification using a short section of DNA
• Molecular phylogenetics – Branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences
• Phylogenetic comparative methods – Use of information on the historical relationships of lineages to test evolutionary hypotheses
• Phylogenetic network – Graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships, including reticulation events
• Phylogenetic niche conservatism – Tendency of lineage to retain ancestral traits
• List of phylogenetics software – Compilation of software used to produce phylogenetic trees
• Phylogenomics – Intersection of the fields of evolution and genomics
• Phylogeography – Field of study
• DNA phylogeny

Group Traits edit

• Symplesiomorphy – An ancestral character or trait state shared by two or more taxa
• Apomorphy – Two concepts on heritable traitsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Synapomorphy – Two concepts on heritable traitsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Autapomorphy – Distinctive feature, known as a derived trait, that is unique to a given taxon

Group Types edit

• Monophyly – Property of a group of including all taxa descendant from a common ancestral species
• Paraphyly – Type of taxonomic group
• Polyphyly – Property of a group not united by common ancestry

• Biodiversity – Variety and variability of life forms

Origin and evolutionary history of life edit

• Abiogenesis – Life arising from non-living matter
• History of life
• Timeline of the evolutionary history of life

Evolution of organisms edit

Evolution of tetrapods edit

• Evolution of tetrapods – Evolution of four legged vertebrates and their derivatives
  • Evolution of dinosaurs – Archosaurian reptiles that dominated the Mesozoic EraPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
    • Evolution of birds – Derivation of birds from a dinosaur precursor
  • Evolution of mammals – Derivation of mammals from a synapsid precursor, and the adaptive radiation of mammal species
    • Evolution of cetaceans
    • Evolution of horses
    • Evolution of primates – Origin and diversification of primates through geologic time
      • Evolution of humans – Evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of anatomically modern humans
        • Evolution of human intelligence – Evolution of the brain and the origin of language
        • Human evolutionary genetics – Study of differences between human genomes
        • Sexual selection in human evolution – Evolutionary effects of sexual selection on humansPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
        • Timeline of human evolution
      • Evolution of lemurs – History of primate evolution on Madagascar
    • Evolution of sirenians – Development from a Tethytherian ancestor and radiation of species
  • Evolution of reptiles – Origin and diversification of reptiles through geologic time

Evolution of other animals edit

• Evolution of brachiopods – The origin and diversification of brachiopods through geologic time
• Evolution of cephalopods – Origin and diversification of cephalopods through geologic time
• Evolution of fish – Origin and diversification of fish through geologic time
• Evolution of insects – Development of insects from an ancestral crustacean and their subsequent radiation
  • Evolution of butterflies – Origin and diversification of butterflies through geologic time
  • Peppered moth evolution – Significance of the peppered moth in evolutionary biology
• Evolution of molluscs – The origin and diversification of molluscs through geologic time
• Evolution of spiders – Origin from a chelicerate ancestor and diversification of spiders through geologic time

Evolution of plants edit

• Evolution of plants – The origin and diversification of plants through geologic time
  • Evolutionary anachronism – Attributes of living species that arose due to coevolution with other now-extinct species
  • Plant evolution – Subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants
  • Plant evolutionary developmental biology – Study of developmental programs and patterns in plants from an evolutionary perspective
  • Timeline of plant evolution – Chronological outline of major events in the development of plants

Evolution of other taxa edit

• Evolution of fungi – Origin and diversification of fungi through geologic time
• Evolution of viruses – Subfield of evolutionary biology and virology concerned with the evolution of viruses
  • Evolution of influenza – Infectious diseasePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• E. coli long-term evolution experiment – Scientific study

Evolution of cells, organs, and systems edit

• Evolution of cells – Evolutionary origin and subsequent development of cells
• Evolution of flagella – Origin of three known varieties of flagella
• Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles – Middle ear bones evolved from jaw bones
• Evolution of nervous systems – Origin and subsequent variation and development of neurons and neural tissues and organs
• Evolution of snake venom – Origin and diversification of snake venom through geologic time
• Evolution of the brain – Overview of the evolution of the brain
• Evolution of the eye – Origins and diversification of the organs of sight through geologic time
  • Evolution of color vision – Origin and variation of colour vision across various lineages through geologic time
  • Evolution of color vision in primates – Loss and regain of colour vision during the evolution of primates
• Immune system – Biological system protecting an organism against disease
• Evolution of metabolism – Set of chemical reactions in organisms

Evolution of molecules and genes edit

• Directed evolution – Protein engineering method
• Error threshold (evolution) – Theoretical limit on rate of mutation
• Gene-centered view of evolution – Theory of the "selfish gene"
• Genome evolution – Process by which a genome changes in structure or size over time
• Hologenome theory of evolution – Organism as host plus microbe community
• Models of DNA evolution – Mathematical models of changing DNA
• Molecular evolution – Process of change in the sequence composition of cellular molecules across generations
  • History of molecular evolution – History of the field of study of molecular evolution
  • Neutral theory of molecular evolution – Theory of evolution by changes at the molecular level
  • Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution – Variant of one theory of evolution
• Neutral network (evolution) – Set of genes all related by point mutations that have equivalent function or fitness
• RNA-based evolution – Theory that RNA plays an independent role in determining phenotype

Evolution of behaviour edit

• Co-operation (evolution) – Evolutionary process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefitsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Evolution of biparental care in tropical frogs – The evolution of the behaviour in frogs in which both the mother and father raise their offspring
• Evolution of emotion – Study of the evolution of emotions
• Evolution of empathy – Capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing
• Evolution of eusociality – Origins of cooperative brood care
• Monogamy in animals – Natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring
• Reciprocal altruism – Form of behaviour between organisms
• Reciprocity (evolution) – Mechanism favouring cooperative traits

Evolution of other processes edit

• Evolution of ageing – Study of the evolutionary development of ageing processes
  • Evolution of aging and mortality – Irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism
  • Origin of programmed cell death – Death of a cell mediated by intracellular program, often as part of development
• Origin of avian flight – Evolution of birds from non-flying ancestors
• Evolution of biological complexity – Tendency for maximum complexity to increase over time, though without any overall direction
• Mosaic evolution – Evolution of characters at various rates both within and between species
• Evolution of multicellularity – The development of organisms that consists of more than one cell from unicellular ancestors
• Evolution of sexual reproduction – How sexually reproducing multicellular organisms could have evolved from a common ancestor species
  • Mating type – Term in biologys
  • Gamete differentiation/sexes – Sexual reproduction involving a large, female gamete and a small, male gamete
  • Sex-determination – Biological system that determines the development of an organism's sex
  • Life cycles/nuclear phases – Series of stages of an organism

• Applications of evolution – Practical application of biological evolution
• Biological anthropology – Branch of anthropology that studies the physical development of the human species
• Evolutionary aesthetics – Evolutionary psychology theories
• Evolutionary anthropology – Interdisciplinary study
• Evolutionary computation – Trial and error problem solvers with a metaheuristic or stochastic optimization character
  • Evolutionary algorithm – Subset of evolutionary computation
• Evolutionary economics – A field in economics that considers economic evolution
  • Kenneth Boulding's evolutionary perspective – Approach to economic theory based on an evolutionary model
• Evolutionary epistemology – Ambiguous term applied to several concepts
• Evolutionary ethics – Study of evolution on morality or ethics
• Evolutionary linguistics – Sociobiological approaches to linguistics
• Evolutionary medicine – Application of modern evolutionary theory to understanding health and disease
• Evolutionary neuroscience – Study of the evolution of nervous systems
• Evolutionary psychology – Branch of psychology
  • Biosocial criminology – Psychosocial examination of crime
  • Criticism of evolutionary psychology – Controversy in psychology
  • Evolution of morality – Emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution
  • Evolution of schizophrenia – theories on how natural selection effected the mental disorderPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
  • Evolutionary aesthetics – Evolutionary psychology theories
  • Evolutionary approaches to depression
  • Evolutionary developmental psychology – Psychology field concerned with Darwinian evolution
    • Evolutionary developmental psychopathology – Branch of psychologyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Evolutionary educational psychology
  • Evolutionary ethics – Study of evolution on morality or ethics
  • Evolutionary leadership theory – Analysis of leadership from an evolutionary perspective
  • Evolutionary musicology – Subfield of biomusicology
  • Evolutionary origin of religions – Emergence of religious behavior discussed in terms of natural evolutionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Evolutionary psychology of language – Study of the evolutionary history of language assuming it is a result of Darwinian adaptation
  • Evolutionary psychology of parenting
  • Evolutionary psychology of religion – Study of religious belief using evolutionary psychology principles
  • Theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology
• Evolutionary robotics
• Evolutionary systems
• Sociobiology – Subdiscipline of biology regarding social behavior
  • Sociocultural evolution – Evolution of societies
  • Cultural evolution – Evolutionary theory of social change
• Universal Darwinism – Application of Darwinian theory to other fields

Controversy about evolution edit

• Creation–evolution controversy – Religious rejection of evolutionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Outline of the creation–evolution controversy – Overview of and topical guide to the creation–evolution controversy
• Criticism of evolutionary psychology – Controversy in psychology
• Evolutionary argument against naturalism – Philosophical argument
• Level of support for evolution – Variation in support for the theory of evolution
• Objections to evolution – Arguments that have been made against evolution
• Social effects of evolutionary theory – Effects on human societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversity
• Theology of creationism and evolution – Topic in theology

Religious and philosophical views of evolution edit

• Acceptance of evolution by religious groups – General review of religious attitudes towards evolution
• Conscious evolution – Hypothetical ability of the human species to choose what they will become
• Buddhism and evolution – General review of religious attitudes towards evolutionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Catholic Church and evolution – Attitude of the Catholic Church to evolution theoryPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Hindu views on evolution
• Islamic views on evolution
  • Ahmadiyya views on evolution – Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam universally accepts a process of divinely guided evolution
• Jewish views on evolution – Jewish views on evolution includes a continuum of views about the theory of evolution
• Mormon views on evolution
• Theistic evolution – Views that religion is compatible with science

Influence of evolutionary theory edit

• Social effects of evolutionary theory – Effects on human societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversity
• See also Applications in other disciplines

Books edit

• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis – 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
• Evolutionary Biology – 1983 book by Eli C. MinkoffPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Journals edit

• Evolution – Monthly journal in the science of evolutionary biology
• Evolutionary Anthropology – Bimonthly review journal
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics – Peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on computational biology in the study of evolution
• Evolutionary Psychology – Peer-reviewed open access academic journal
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology – Bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal
• Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research – Quarterly, peer reviewed, scientific journal
• Trends in Ecology & Evolution (TREE) – Series of review journals

Organizations edit

• European Society for Evolutionary Biology – Organisation to support the study of organic evolution
• Society for the Study of Evolution – Professional organization of evolutionary biologists
• Evolutionary psychology research groups and centers
• I. M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry – Research facility in Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology – Research institute based in Leipzig, Germany
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology – Research institute located in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
• National Evolutionary Synthesis Center – Scientific research center in Durham, North Carolina
• Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeography Association – international biogeographical communityPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Evolutionary Informatics Lab – American engineer and intelligent design advocate (born 1950)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

• List of evolutionary psychologists
• List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Evolutionary biology)

Prominent evolutionary biologists edit

• Charles Darwin – English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
• Theodosius Dobzhansky – Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900–1975)
• Richard Dawkins – English evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
• Stephen Jay Gould – American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
• J. B. S. Haldane – Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892–1964)
• Julian Huxley – British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
• Thomas Henry Huxley – English biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
• Ronald Fisher – British polymath (1890–1962)
• Ernst Mayr – German-American evolutionary biologist (1904–2005)
• Alfred Russel Wallace – British naturalist (1823–1913)
• Sewall Wright – American geneticist (1889–1988)

• Outline of biology – Outline of subdisciplines within biology
  • Outline of genetics – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to genetics
• Biogeography – Study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time
• Conscious evolution – Hypothetical ability of the human species to choose what they will become
• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology – Interdisciplinary field of studyPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Effective evolutionary time – Hypothesis offering a causal explanation of diversity gradients
• Evolutionary acquisition of neural topologies – Method that evolves both the topology and weights of artificial neural networks
• Evolutionary anachronism – Attributes of living species that arose due to coevolution with other now-extinct species
• Evolutionary approaches to depression
• Evolutionary argument against naturalism – Philosophical argument
• Evolutionary art – Art generated by an iterated process
  • Evolutionary music – Audio counterpart to evolutionary art
• Evolutionary baggage – Currently disadvantageous part of the genome
• Evolutionary Humanism – Life stance that embraces human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalismPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Evolutionary informatics – Pseudoscientific argument for the existence of GodPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Evolutionary landscape – Metaphor used to visualize the processes of evolution
• Evolutionary Principle – The adaptation of species
• Extinction – Termination of a taxon by the death of its last member
  • Extinction event – Widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth
  • Human extinction – Hypothetical end of the human species
  • Local extinction – Termination of a taxon in a region which it previously inhabited
• MEGA, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis – Software for statistical analysis of molecular evolutionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Sloshing bucket model of evolution – Theory in evolutionary biology
• Spandrel (biology) – Evolutionary byproduct of some other characteristic
• Speculative evolution – Science fiction genre exploring hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life
• Transitional fossil – Type of fossilized remains

General information

• Evolution on In Our Time at the BBC
• "Evolution". New Scientist. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
• "Evolution Resources from the National Academies". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
• "Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
• "Evolution of Evolution – 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"". National Science Foundation. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
• Human Timeline (Interactive) – Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History (August 2016).

Experiments concerning the process of biological evolution

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

Online lectures

• Carroll SB. "The Making of the Fittest". Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
• Stearns SC. "Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior". Archived from the original on March 23, 2011. Retrieved August 30, 2011.