Index of evolutionary biology articles

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.

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A

abiogenesis – adaptation – adaptive mutation - adaptive radiation – allele – allele frequency – allopatric speciation – altruism – anagenesis – Applications of evolution - aposematism – Archaeopteryx – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection – atavism

B

Henry Walter Bates – biological organisation – Brassica oleracea – breed

C

Cambrian explosion – camouflage – catagenesis (biology) – gene-centered view of evolution – cephalization – Sergei Chetverikov – Chi square test – chronobiology – chronospecies – clade – cladistics – Climatic adaptation – coalescent theory – co-evolution – Co-operation (evolution) – coefficient of relationship – common descent – convergent evolution – creation-evolution controversy – cultivar – current research in evolutionary biology – 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 – endosymbiosis – error threshold (evolution) – evidence of common descent – evolution – evolutionary arms race – evolutionary capacitance – evolution of cetaceans – evolution of complexity – evolution of the horse – evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles – evolution of mammals – evolution of sex – evolution of sirenians – evolution of the eye – evolutionary developmental biology – evolutionary dynamics – Evolutionary medicine - evolutionary neuroscience – evolutionary psychology – evolutionary radiation – evolutionarily stable strategy – Evolutionary taxonomy - evolutionary tree – evolvability – Evolution of the brain – 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 – horizontal gene transfer – human evolution – Evolutionary game theory - human evolutionary genetics – homologous chromosomes – homology (biology) – Julian Huxley – human vestigiality

I

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

K

kin selection – Motoo Kimura–Karyotype – Koinophilia

L

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – Lamarckism – landrace – Language -Last common ancestor – Last universal ancestor – 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 – microevolution – Micropaleontology (a.k.a. micropaleobiology) – Miller–Urey experiment – mimicry – Mitochondrial Eve – modern evolutionary synthesis – molecular clock – molecular evolution – molecular phylogeny – molecular systematics – Monogamy – 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 – Origin of birds – orthologous genes

P

Paleoanthropology – Paleobiology – Paleobotany – Paleontology – Paleozoology – Paleozoology: Vertebrates – Paleozoology: 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 – Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Q

Quantum evolution - quasispecies model

R

race (biology) – Red Queen – recapitulation theory – recombination – Bernhard Rensch

S

selection – selective breeding – 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 – Triangle of U

U

Unit of selection

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 – Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright

Y

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

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