Index of evolutionary biology articles
This is a list of topics in evolutionary biology.
A
artificial selection – atavism
B
Henry Walter Bates – biological organisation – Brassica oleracea – breed
C
creation–evolution controversy – cultivar – conspecific song preference
D
directed mutagenesis – Directed evolution – directional selection – Theodosius Dobzhansky – dog breeding – domestication – domestication of the horse
E
endosymbiosis – error threshold (evolution) – evidence of common descent – evolution – evolutionary arms race – evolutionary capacitance
Evolution:
F
E.B. Ford – fossil
G
gene-centric view of evolution – gene duplication – gene flow – gene pool – genetic drift – genetic hitchhiking – genetic recombination – genetic variation – genotype – gene–environment correlation – gene–environment interaction – genotype–phenotype distinction – Stephen Jay Gould – gradualism – Peter and Rosemary Grant – group selection
H
homologous chromosomes – homology (biology) – horizontal gene transfer – human evolution – human evolutionary genetics – human vestigiality – Julian Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley
I
insect evolution – Invertebrate paleontology
(a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)
K
karyotype – kin selection – Motoo Kimura – koinophilia
L
living fossils – Charles Lyell
M
molecular systematics – mosaic evolution – most recent common ancestor – Hermann Joseph Muller – Muller's ratchet – mutation – mutational meltdown
N
Franz Nopcsa – "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution
"
O
orthologous genes
P
preadaptation – prehistoric archaeology – Principles of Geology – George R. Price – Price equation – punctuated equilibrium
Q
quantum evolution – quasispecies model
R
recombination – Bernhard Rensch – reinforcement (speciation) – reproductive coevolution in Ficus – r/K selection theory
S
species flock – sperm competition – stabilizing selection – strain (biology) – subspecies – survival of the fittest – symbiogenesis – systematics – George Gaylord Simpson – G. Ledyard Stebbins
T
transposon – tree of life – triangle of U
U
V
variety (botany) – vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – viral evolution – The Voyage of the Beagle – vestigiality
W
Edward O. Wilson – Sewall Wright
Y
Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups
See also
- List of biology topics
- List of biochemistry topics