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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 Darwin Introduction The history of early theories of evolution has suffered from two opposite assumptio...
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...
Hybrid Speciation
Michael L. Arnold
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Hybrid Speciation Introduction The process of hybrid speciation—the formation of evolutionarily independent lineages from genetic exchange eve...
Hybrid Zones
Sean P. Mullen
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Hybrid Zones Introduction Hybrid zones are regions where genetically distinct populations meet, mate, and produce at least some offspring of m...
Identifying the Genomic Basis Underlying Phenotypic Variation
Kara Powder, Craig Albertson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Identifying the Genomic Basis Underlying Phenotypic VariationIntroductionSince the Modern Synthesis and the identification of the structure of DNA, ev...
Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression
Donald M. Waller, Lukas F. Keller
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Inbreeding and Inbreeding DepressionIntroductionInbreeding (also referred to as “consanguinity”) occurs when mates are related to each other due to in...
Inclusive Fitness
Charlie K. Cornwallis
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Inclusive Fitness Introduction Cooperation is abundant throughout the natural world and exists at all biological levels, from genes forming ge...
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