Index of evolutionary biology articles

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

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

A

abiogenesisadaptationadaptive mutation - adaptive radiationalleleallele frequencyallopatric speciationaltruism anagenesisanti-predator adaptationapplications of evolution - aposematismArchaeopteryx – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection – atavism

B

Henry Walter Batesbiological organisationBrassica oleraceabreed

C

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

D

Darwin (unit)Charles DarwinDarwinismDarwin's finchesRichard Dawkinsdirected mutagenesis - Directed evolution - directional selectionTheodosius DobzhanskyDog breedingDomesticationDomestication of the horse

E

E. coli long-term evolution experiment - ecological geneticsecological selectionEndless Forms Most Beautifulendosymbiosiserror threshold (evolution)evidence of common descentevolutionevolutionary arms raceevolutionary capacitance

Evolution: of ageingof the brainof cetaceans – of complexity – of dinosaursof the eyeof fishof the horseof insectsof human intelligenceof mammalian auditory ossiclesof mammals – of monogamy – of sexof sireniansof tetrapodsof the wolf

evolutionary developmental biologyevolutionary dynamicsevolutionary game theory - evolutionary history of lifeevolutionary history of plantsevolutionary medicine - evolutionary neuroscienceevolutionary psychologyevolutionary radiationevolutionarily stable strategyevolutionary taxonomy - evolutionary tree – evolvabilityexperimental evolutionexaptationextinction

F

Joe Felsenstein – R.A. Fisher – Fisher's reproductive value – fitnessfitness landscape – E.B. Ford – fossil

G

Galápagos Islandsgene – gene-centric view of evolution – gene duplicationgene flowgene poolgenetic driftgenetic hitchhikinggenetic recombinationgenetic variationgenotype – genotype-environment correlation – genotype-environment interaction – genotype-phenotype distinction – Stephen Jay GouldgradualismPeter and Rosemary Grantgroup selection

H

J. B. S. HaldaneW. D. HamiltonHardy–Weinberg principleheredity – hierarchy of life – history of evolutionary thoughthistory of speciation – homologous chromosomes – homology (biology)horizontal gene transferhuman evolutionhuman evolutionary geneticshuman vestigialityJulian HuxleyThomas Henry Huxley

I

inclusive fitness – insect evolution – Invertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)

K

karyotypekin selectionMotoo Kimurakoinophilia

L

Jean-Baptiste LamarckLamarckismlandraceLanguageLast universal common ancestorLevel of support for evolutionRichard Lewontinlist of gene familiesList of human evolution fossils – life-history theory – Wen-Hsiung Li – living fossils – Charles Lyell

M

macroevolutionmacromutationThe Major Transitions in EvolutionmaladaptationThe Malay Archipelago – mass extinctions – mating systems – John Maynard SmithErnst MayrGregor MendelmemeticsMendelian inheritanceMesozoic–Cenozoic radiationmicroevolutionmicropaleontology (a.k.a. micropaleobiology) – Miller–Urey experimentmimicryMitochondrial Evemodern evolutionary synthesismolecular clockmolecular evolution – molecular phylogeny – molecular systematics – mosaic evolutionmost recent common ancestorHermann Joseph MullerMuller's ratchetmutationmutational meltdown

N

natural selection - natural genetic engineeringNature versus nurtureNeo-Darwinismneutral 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 SpeciesOrdovician radiationorigin of birdsorigin of language – orthologous genes

P

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

Q

Quantum evolutionquasispecies model

R

race (biology)Red Queen hypothesisrecapitulation theoryrecent African origin of modern humans – recombination – Bernhard Renschreinforcement (speciation)Reproductive coevolution in Ficusr/K selection theory

S

selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Genesexual selectionsignalling theorysociobiology - Social effects of evolutionary theoryspeciesspeciation – species flock – sperm competitionstabilizing selectionstrain (biology)subspeciessurvival of the fittestsymbiogenesissystematicsGeorge Gaylord SimpsonG. Ledyard Stebbins

T

Tiktaalik – timeline of evolution – Trait (biological) – transgressive phenotype – transitional fossiltransposontree of lifeTriangle of U

U

unit of selection

V

variety (botany)Vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – viral evolutionThe Voyage of the Beaglevestigiality

W

Alfred Russel Wallace – Wallace effect – Wallace LineWallaceaGeorge C. Williams (biologist) – Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright

Y

Y-chromosomal Adam – Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups

See also

  • List of biology topics
  • List of biochemistry topics
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