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This is alist of topics in evolutionary biology.
abiogenesis –adaptation –adaptive mutation –adaptive radiation –allele –allele frequency –allochronic speciation –allopatric speciation –altruism – anagenesis –anti-predator adaptation –applications of evolution –apomorphy –aposematism –Archaeopteryx –aquatic adaptation –artificial selection –atavism
Henry Walter Bates –biological organisation –Black Queen hypothesis –Brassica oleracea –breed
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
Darwin (unit) –Charles Darwin –Darwinism –Darwin's finches –Richard Dawkins –directed mutagenesis –Directed evolution –directional selection –disruptive selection –Theodosius Dobzhansky –dog breeding –domestication –domestication of the horse
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 invasion analysis -evolutionary medicine –evolutionary neuroscience –evolutionary psychology –evolutionary radiation –evolutionarily stable strategy –evolutionary taxonomy –evolutionary tree –evolvability –experimental evolution –exaptation –extinction
Joe Felsenstein –R.A. Fisher –Fisher's reproductive value –fitness –fitness landscape –fixation index (FST) –fluctuating selection –E.B. Ford –fossil –frequency-dependent selection
Galápagos Islands –gene –gene-centric view of evolution –gene duplication –gene flow –gene pool –genetic drift –genetic hitchhiking –genetic recombination –genetic variation –genotype –gene–environment correlation –gene–environment interaction –genotype–phenotype distinction –Stephen Jay Gould –gradualism –Peter and Rosemary Grant –group selection
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
inclusive fitness –insect evolution –Invertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)
karyotype –kin selection –Motoo Kimura –koinophilia
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
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
natural selection –natural genetic engineering –nature versus nurture –negative selection –Neo-Darwinism –neutral theory of molecular evolution – BaronFranz Nopcsa – "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
Susumu Ohno –Aleksandr Oparin –On The Origin of Species –Ordovician radiation –origin of birds –origin of language –orthologous genes (orthologs)
paleoanthropology –paleobiology –paleobotany –paleontology –paleozoology (of vertebrates –of invertebrates) –parallel evolution –paralogous genes (paralogs) –parapatric speciation –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
quantitative genetics -quantum evolution –quasispecies model
race (biology) –Red Queen hypothesis –recapitulation theory –recent African origin of modern humans –recombination –Bernhard Rensch –reinforcement (speciation) –reproductive coevolution inFicus –reproductive isolation –r/K selection theory
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 –sympatric speciation –synapomorphy –systematics –George Gaylord Simpson –G. Ledyard Stebbins
Tiktaalik –timeline of evolution –trait (biological) –transgressive phenotype –transitional fossil –transposon –tree of life –triangle of U
variety (botany) –vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) –viral evolution –The Voyage of the Beagle –vestigiality
Alfred Russel Wallace –Wallace effect –Wallace Line –Wallacea –George C. Williams (biologist) –Edward O. Wilson –Sewall Wright
Y-chromosomal Adam –Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups
