List of evolutionary biology topics

This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology and evolution.

See also: List of biology topics, List of biochemistry topics, WikiProject Evolutionary biology

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Template:CompactTOC2 abiogenesis – adaptation – adaptive radiation – allele – allele frequency – allopatric speciation – altruism – anagenesis – Archaeopteryx – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection – atavism

Template:CompactTOC2 Brassica oleracea – breed

Template:CompactTOC2 Cambrian explosion – catagenesis – gene-centered view of evolution – cephalization – 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

Template:CompactTOC2 Darwin (unit) – Charles Darwin – Darwinism – Darwin’s finches – Richard Dawkins – directional selection – Theodosius Dobzhansky – Dog breeding – Domestication – Domestication of the horse

Template:CompactTOC2 ecological genetics – ecological selection – endosymbiosis – error threshold (evolution) – evidence of evolution – evolution – evolutionary arms race – 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 neuroscience – evolutionary psychology – evolutionary radiation – evolutionary stable strategy – evolutionary tree – experimental evolution – exaptation – extinction

Template:CompactTOC2 Joe Felsenstein – R.A. Fisher – Fisher’s reproductive value – fitness – fitness landscape – E.B. Ford – fossil

Template:CompactTOC2 Galápagos Islands – gene – gene-centric view of evolution – gene duplication – gene flow – gene pool – genetic drift – genetic recombination – genetic variation – genotype – genotype-phenotype distinction – Stephen Jay Gould – gradualism – Peter and Rosemary Grant – group selection

Template:CompactTOC2 J. B. S. Haldane – W. D. Hamilton – Hardy-Weinberg principle – heredity – history of evolutionary thought – horizontal gene transfer – human evolution – human evolutionary genetics – homologous chromosomes – homology (biology)

Template:CompactTOC2 inclusive fitness – insect evolution – Invertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)

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Template:CompactTOC2 kin selection – Motoo Kimura – Karyotype

Template:CompactTOC2 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

Template:CompactTOC2 macroevolution – macromutation – The Major Transitions in Evolution – maladaptation – mass extinctions – mating systems – John Maynard Smith – Ernst Mayr – Gregor Mendel – Mendelian inheritance – microevolution – Micropaleontology (a.k.a. micropaleobiology) – Mitochondrial Eve – modern evolutionary synthesis – molecular clock – molecular evolution – molecular phylogeny – molecular systematics – Monogamy – most recent common ancestor – Hermann Joseph Muller – Muller’s ratchet – mutation – mutational meltdown

Template:CompactTOC2 natural selection – Nature versus nurture – neutral theory of molecular evolution – Baron Franz Nopcsa

Template:CompactTOC2 Susumu Ohno – Aleksandr Oparin – Origin of birds – The Origin of Species – orthologous genes

Template:CompactTOC2 Paleoanthropology – Paleobiology – Paleobotany – Paleontology – Paleozoology – Paleozoology: Vertebrates – Paleozoology: Invertebrates – parallel evolution – paraphyletic –peppered moth – peppered moth evolution – peripatric speciation – phenotype – phylogenetics – phylogeny – phylogenetic tree – pikaia – Plant evolution – population – Population bottleneck – population dynamics – population genetics – preadaptation – prehistoric archaeology – Principles of Geology – George R. Price – Price equation – punctuated equilibrium – Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Template:CompactTOC2 quasispecies model

Template:CompactTOC2 race (biology) – Red Queen – recapitulation theory – recombination

Template:CompactTOC2 selection – selective breeding – Science of Evolution – sexual selection – sociobiology – species – speciation – species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – Survival value – symbiogenesis – systematics

Template:CompactTOC2Tiktaalik – timeline of evolution – Trait (biological) – transitional fossil – transposon – Triangle of U

Template:CompactTOC2 Uniformitarianism (science) – Unit of selection

Template:CompactTOC2 variety (plant) – Vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – viral evolution – The Voyage of the Beagle

Template:CompactTOC2 Alfred Russel Wallace – Wallace effect – Wallace Line – Wallacea – George C. Williams – Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright

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Template:CompactTOC2 Y-chromosomal Adam – Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups

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