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Parent topics
- Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. [e]
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
Subtopics
- The Origin of Species [r]: 1859 book by Charles Darwin expounding the theory of evolution through natural selection [e]
- Evolutionary fitness [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionarily stable strategy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
- Comparative linguistics [r]: (also known as comparative philology) A branch of historical linguistics that uses a number of methods of comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. [e]
- Creationism [r]: is the belief that the world and the universe was created by God. [e]
- Endosymbiont theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernst Mayr [r]: (1904-2005) German biologist and major proponent of evolutionary philosophy. [e]
- Evolutionary algorithm [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e]
- Evolutionary medicine [r]: The study of diseases from the point of view of human evolutionary biology [e]
- Evolutionary psychology [r]: The comparative study of the nervous system and its relation to behaviour across species. [e]
- Fat utilization hypothesis [r]: Hypothesis that explains the major role of phospholipid and fatty acid metabolism played in human evolution. [e]
- Game theory [r]: A field of mathematics commonly associated with economics that provides models for behavior in many diverse situations, and is used in many academic fields from politics to computer science. [e]
- Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
- Homology [r]: A concept used in a variety of ways to denote common evolutionary descent of biological characteristics. [e]
- J. B. S. Haldane [r]: (1892-1964) One of the founders of theoretical population genetics and widely known for his work in enzyme kinetics. [e]
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
- Model organism [r]: Species often used in research as models for the study of biological processes. [e]
- Origin of life [r]: How did self-replicating biochemistry and cells arise from the prebiotic world approximately four billion years ago? Aka abiogenesis. [e]
- Origin of music [r]: The evolutionary background of the human capacity for music. [e]
- Richard Dawkins [r]: (1941–) British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, science writer and outspoken atheist. [e]
- Stephen Jay Gould [r]: (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist, paleontologist, historian and popular science writer. [e]
- The Two Cultures [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theoretical biology [r]: The study of biological systems by theoretical means. [e]
