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Field Studies of Natural Selection
Jeffrey K. Conner
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Field Studies of Natural SelectionIntroductionNatural selection can be defined as a non-random relationship between a phenotypic trait and fitness. Th...
Fossils
Kevin Boyce
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
FossilsIntroductionFossils represent the remnants of biological activity preserved over thousands, millions, or billions of years. Those remnants rang...
Founder Effect Speciation
Alan R. Templeton
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Founder Effect SpeciationIntroductionThe origin of species (speciation)—the process by which two or more species evolve from a single ancestral specie...
Frequency-Dependent Selection
John A. Allen
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Frequency-Dependent SelectionIntroductionSelection is frequency dependent when the fitness of a phenotype, genotype, or gene (or species) varies with ...
Fungi, Evolution of
David Hibbett
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolution of Fungi Introduction Fungi make up a major clade of eukaryotes that includes yeasts, molds, lichens, and mushrooms. The ancestor of ...
Gene Duplication
Jianzhi Zhang
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Gene Duplication Introduction Gene duplication refers to the duplication of a segment of DNA that contains one or more genes. Gene duplication...
Gene Expression, Evolution of
David Stern
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Evolution of Gene ExpressionIntroductionGene expression is the spatial and temporal pattern of a gene product, such as mRNA or protein. Since the earl...
Gene Flow
Peter Beerli
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Gene FlowIntroductionIn population genetics, both gene flow and migration assume that individuals arrive from other localities; gene flow also assumes...
Genetics, Ecological
Joanna Freeland
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Ecological GeneticsIntroductionEcology is the study of the relationships between organisms and their environments, whereas ecological genetics focuses...
Genome Evolution
Xiao Chen, Kelsi Lindblad, Laura F. Landweber
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Genome Evolution Introduction While modern evolutionary biologists achieved a deep theoretical understanding of how genetic material changes i...
Geographic Variation
Bryan Epperson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Geographic Variation Introduction Evolutionary principles of geographic variation began to emerge early as the field of evolutionary biology d...
Gradualism
Melanie Hopkins, Scott Lidgard
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
GradualismIntroductionThe idea of gradualism is one of the key facets of macroevolution, and mostly concerns lineages of interrelated populations of o...
Group Selection
Andy Gardner
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Group SelectionIntroductionThe basic idea of group selection theory is that the logic of natural selection acting at the level of individual organisms...
Heterochrony
Miriam Zelditch
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
HeterochronyIntroductionHeterochrony, broadly defined, refers to evolutionary change in the rate or timing of development. The concept has long been c...
Heterozygosity
Fred W. Allendorf
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Heterozygosity Introduction Heterozygosity—the condition of having two different alleles at a locus—is fundamental to the study of genetic vari...
History of Evolutionary Thought before Darwin
Pietro Corsi
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
History of Evolutionary Thought before DarwinIntroductionThe history of early theories of evolution has suffered from two opposite assumptions. The mo...
History of Evolutionary Thought Since 1930
Roberta Millstein, Michael Dietrich, Robert A. Skipper
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
History of Evolutionary Thought Since 1930IntroductionEvolutionary biology underwent several significant transformations in the period after 1930. Whi...
History of Evolutionary Thought, 1860–1925
Garland E. Allen
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
History of Evolutionary Thought, 1860–1925IntroductionThe reaction to the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was as varied as the source...
Human Behavioral Ecology
Bobbi Low
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Human Behavioral EcologyIntroductionHuman behavioral ecology (HBE) asks how environmental conditions—physical, biotic, and social—shape human lifetime...
Human Evolution
Bernard Wood
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Human EvolutionIntroductionThe study of human evolution involves (1) understanding the evolutionary context and the circumstances surrounding the orig...
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