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This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.
A
abiogenesis – adaptation – adaptive mutation - adaptive radiation – allele – allele frequency – allochronic speciation – allopatric speciation – altruism – anagenesis – anti-predator adaptation – applications of evolution - aposematism – Archaeopteryx – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection – atavism
B
Henry Walter Bates – biological organisation – Brassica oleracea – breed
C
Cambrian explosion – camouflage – Sean B. Carroll – catagenesis – gene-centered view of evolution – cephalization – Sergei Chetverikov – chronobiology – chronospecies – clade – cladistics – climatic adaptation – coalescent theory – co-evolution – co-operation – coefficient of relationship – common descent – convergent evolution – creation–evolution controversy – cultivar – conspecific song preference
D
Darwin (unit) – Charles Darwin – Darwinism – Darwin's finches – Richard Dawkins – directed mutagenesis - Directed evolution - directional selection – Theodosius Dobzhansky – Dog breeding – Domestication – Domestication of the horse
E
E. coli long-term evolution experiment - ecological genetics – ecological selection – ecological speciation – Endless Forms Most Beautiful – endosymbiosis – error threshold (evolution) – evidence of common descent – evolution – evolutionary arms race – evolutionary capacitance
Evolution: of ageing – of the brain – of cetaceans – of complexity – of dinosaurs – of the eye – of fish – of the horse – of insects – of human intelligence – of mammalian auditory ossicles – of mammals – of monogamy – of sex – of sirenians – of tetrapods – of the wolf
evolutionary developmental biology – evolutionary dynamics – evolutionary game theory - evolutionary history of life – evolutionary history of plants – evolutionary medicine - evolutionary neuroscience – evolutionary psychology – evolutionary radiation – evolutionarily stable strategy – evolutionary taxonomy - evolutionary tree – evolvability – experimental evolution – exaptation – extinction
F
Joe Felsenstein – R.A. Fisher – Fisher's reproductive value – fitness – fitness landscape – E.B. Ford – fossil
G
Galápagos Islands – gene – gene-centric view of evolution – gene duplication – gene flow – gene pool – genetic drift – genetic hitchhiking – genetic recombination – genetic variation – genotype – genotype-environment correlation – genotype-environment interaction – genotype-phenotype distinction – Stephen Jay Gould – gradualism – Peter and Rosemary Grant – group selection
H
J. B. S. Haldane – W. D. Hamilton – Hardy–Weinberg principle – heredity – hierarchy of life – history of evolutionary thought – history of speciation – homologous chromosomes – homology (biology) – horizontal gene transfer – human evolution – human evolutionary genetics – human vestigiality – Julian Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley
I
inclusive fitness – insect evolution – Invertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)
K
karyotype — kin selection – Motoo Kimura – koinophilia
L
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – Lamarckism – landrace – Language – Last universal common ancestor – Level of support for evolution – Richard Lewontin – list of gene families – List of human evolution fossils – life-history theory – Wen-Hsiung Li – living fossils – Charles Lyell
M
macroevolution – macromutation – The Major Transitions in Evolution – maladaptation – The Malay Archipelago – mass extinctions – mating systems – John Maynard Smith – Ernst Mayr – Gregor Mendel – memetics – Mendelian inheritance – Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation – microevolution – micropaleontology (a.k.a. micropaleobiology) – Miller–Urey experiment – mimicry – Mitochondrial Eve – modern evolutionary synthesis – molecular clock – molecular evolution – molecular phylogeny – molecular systematics – mosaic evolution – most recent common ancestor – Hermann Joseph Muller – Muller's ratchet – mutation – mutational meltdown
N
natural selection - natural genetic engineering – Nature versus nurture – Neo-Darwinism – neutral theory of molecular evolution – Baron Franz Nopcsa - Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
O
Susumu Ohno – Aleksandr Oparin – On The Origin of Species – Ordovician radiation – origin of birds – origin of language – orthologous genes
P
paleoanthropology – paleobiology – paleobotany – paleontology – paleozoology (of vertebrates – of invertebrates) – parallel evolution – paraphyletic – particulate inheritance – peppered moth – peppered moth evolution – peripatric speciation – phenotype – phylogenetics – phylogeny – phylogenetic tree – Pikaia – Plant evolution – polymorphism (biology) – population – population bottleneck – population dynamics – population genetics – preadaptation – prehistoric archaeology – Principles of Geology – George R. Price – Price equation – punctuated equilibrium
Q
Quantum evolution – quasispecies model
R
race (biology) – Red Queen hypothesis – recapitulation theory – recent African origin of modern humans – recombination – Bernhard Rensch – reinforcement (speciation) – Reproductive coevolution in Ficus – r/K selection theory
S
selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Gene – sexual selection – signalling theory – sociobiology - Social effects of evolutionary theory – species – speciation – species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – symbiogenesis – systematics – George Gaylord Simpson – G. Ledyard Stebbins
T
Tiktaalik – timeline of evolution – Trait (biological) – transgressive phenotype – transitional fossil – transposon – tree of life – Triangle of U
U
V
variety (botany) – Vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – viral evolution – The Voyage of the Beagle – vestigiality
W
Alfred Russel Wallace – Wallace effect – Wallace Line – Wallacea – George C. Williams (biologist) – Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright
Y
Y-chromosomal Adam – Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups