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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to evolution:

Evolution – change in heritable traits of biological organisms over generations due to natural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift. Also known as descent with modification. "Evolution" is also another name for evolutionary biology, the subfield of biology concerned with studying evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

General reference

Subfields of evolution

Evolutionary processes

Taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny

  • Most recent common ancestor – most recent individual from which all organisms in a group are directly descended. It is impossible to identify the specific MRCA of a large set of individuals, but an estimate of the time at which the MRCA lived can often be given.
  • Evidence of common descent –
Subfields
Basic concepts
Inference methods
Probabilistic methods
Current topics
Group Traits
Group Types

History of evolution

Evolutionary history of life

Evolutionary history of life – outline of major events during evolution of life on Earth

History of the science of evolution

Evolution in action

Evolution of organisms

Evolution of tetrapods

Evolution of other animals

Evolution of plants

Evolution of other taxa

Evolution of cells, organs, and systems

Evolution of molecules and genes

Evolutionary psychology and the evolution of behaviour

Evolution of other processes

Modelling

Religious and philosophical views of evolution

Controversy over evolution

Applications of evolution

  • Applications of evolution – practical applications in fields such as ecology, artificial intelligence, medicine, and computer science

See also


References

External links

General information
Experiments concerning the process of biological evolution
Online lectures
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