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Index of evolutionary biology articles

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

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

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abiogenesisadaptationadaptive mutationadaptive radiationalleleallele frequencyallochronic speciationallopatric speciationaltruism anagenesisanti-predator adaptationapplications of evolutionapomorphyaposematismArchaeopteryxaquatic adaptationartificial selectionatavism

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Henry Walter Batesbiological organisationBlack Queen hypothesisBrassica oleraceabreed

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Cambrian explosioncamouflageSean B. Carrollcatagenesisgene-centered view of evolutioncephalizationSergei Chetverikovchronobiologychronospeciescladecladisticsclimatic adaptationcoalescent theoryco-evolutionco-operationcoefficient of relationshipcommon descentconvergent evolutioncreation–evolution controversycultivarconspecific song preference

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Darwin (unit)Charles DarwinDarwinismDarwin's finchesRichard Dawkinsdirected mutagenesisDirected evolutiondirectional selectiondisruptive selectionTheodosius Dobzhanskydog breedingdomesticationdomestication of the horse

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E. coli long-term evolution experimentecological geneticsecological selectionecological 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 biologyevolutionary dynamicsevolutionary game theoryevolutionary history of lifeevolutionary history of plantsevolutionary medicineevolutionary neuroscienceevolutionary psychologyevolutionary radiationevolutionarily stable strategyevolutionary taxonomyevolutionary treeevolvabilityexperimental evolutionexaptationextinction

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Joe FelsensteinR.A. FisherFisher's reproductive valuefitnessfitness landscapefixation index (FST) – fluctuating selectionE.B. Fordfossilfrequency-dependent selection

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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 Lewontinlist of gene familieslist of human evolution fossilslife-history theoryWen-Hsiung Liliving fossilsCharles Lyell

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

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natural selectionnatural genetic engineeringnature versus nurturenegative selectionNeo-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 birdsorigin of languageorthologous genes (orthologs)

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paleoanthropologypaleobiologypaleobotanypaleontologypaleozoology (of vertebratesof invertebrates) – parallel evolutionparalogous genes (paralogs) – parapatric speciationparaphyleticparticulate inheritancepeppered 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 humansrecombinationBernhard Renschreinforcement (speciation)reproductive coevolution in Ficusreproductive isolationr/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 fittestsymbiogenesissympatric speciationsynapomorphysystematicsGeorge Gaylord SimpsonG. Ledyard Stebbins

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Tiktaaliktimeline of evolutiontrait (biological)transgressive phenotypetransitional 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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