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Natural Selection in Human Populations
Amy Goldberg, Lawrence H. Uricchio, Noah A. Rosenberg
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Natural Selection in Human PopulationsIntroductionNatural selection, the process by which heritable individual differences that contribute to variatio...
Natural Selection in the Genome, Detecting
Joanna Kelley
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Detecting Natural Selection in the GenomeIntroductionGenome-scale data is within our reach for nearly every organism. It is feasible to survey both po...
Neutral Theory
Jianzhi Zhang
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Neutral TheoryIntroductionThe neutral theory, formally known as the neutral theory of molecular evolution, was independently proposed by M. Kimura in ...
New Zealand, Evolutionary Biogeography of
Hamish G. Spencer, Nicolas J. Rawlence
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Evolutionary Biogeography of New ZealandIntroductionEver since the first western scientists visited Aotearoa New Zealand, biologists have been fascina...
Niche Construction
Kevin Laland
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Niche ConstructionIntroductionNiche construction is the process whereby organisms, through their activities and choices, modify their own and each oth...
Niche Evolution
R. Alexander Pyron
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Niche EvolutionIntroductionThe evolution of species’ niches is a process that is fundamental to investigations in numerous fields of biology, includin...
Non-Human Animals, Cultural Evolution in
Robert F. Lachlan, Andrew Whiten
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2020-11-24
Cultural Evolution in Non-Human AnimalsIntroduction“Culture” is generally regarded as a population’s shared array of traditions, transmitted between i...
Origin and Early Evolution of Animals
Kevin J. Peterson
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Origin and Early Evolution of Animals Introduction Coming at the end of one of the most intensive glaciation periods in Earth history (glacier...
Origin of Eukaryotes
Gautam Dey, Buzz Baum, David A. Baum
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
Origin of EukaryotesIntroductionMuch of the visible living world around us is characterized by cells that contain a nucleus enclosing the genetic mate...
Origin of Life, The
S. Blair Hedges
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
The Origin of Life Introduction Biological evolution begins with the origin of life, but the subject is the perhaps the most interdisciplinary...
Paradox of Sex
Isa Schön, Koen Martens
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Paradox of SexIntroductionThe evolution of sex can be divided into two major but rather different topics, the origin and the maintenance of sex. The o...
Parental Care, Evolution of
Per T. Smiseth
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolution of Parental CareIntroductionParental care involves traits expressed by parents that are directed toward their offspring and that enhance the...
Parthenogenesis
Tanja Schwander
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Parthenogenesis Introduction Parthenogenesis is the development of an unfertilized egg into a new individual. Coined by Carl Theodor Ernst von...
Personality Differences, Evolution of
Denis Réale, Alexander Weiss
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Evolution of Personality Differences Introduction The concept of personality comes from psychology. Although they are various definitions of p...
Phenotypic Plasticity
Nick Levis, David W. Pfennig
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Phenotypic PlasticityIntroductionPhenotypic plasticity (often termed “plasticity”) is generally defined as the capacity of an individual organism to a...
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Tests of Macroevolutionary Questions
Emilia P. Martins, Jesualdo Arturo Fuentes-González
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Tests of Macroevolutionary QuestionsIntroductionThe comparative method has been used throughout biology to genera...
Phylogenetic Trees, Interpretation of
Stacey D. Smith
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Interpretation of Phylogenetic Trees Introduction At first glance, a phylogenetic tree appears to be a relatively simple diagram, beginning at...
Phylogeography
Bryan C. Carstens
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Phylogeography Introduction The discipline of phylogeography is relatively new; it gained momentum when John Avise and colleagues coined the t...
Polyploid Speciation
Doug Soltis, Clayton Visger
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Polyploid SpeciationIntroductionDiploid organisms have two complete sets of chromosomes. Polyploidy, often referred to now as whole genome duplication...
Population Genetics
A. Rus Hoelzel
Subject: Evolutionary Biology »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Population GeneticsIntroductionThe molecule that determines life, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), can be usefully divided up into segments called “loci” ...
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