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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.
Fundamentals
- Introduction to evolution – non-technical introduction
- Applications of evolution – practical applications in fields such as ecology, artificial intelligence, medicine, and computer science
- Common descent – how different lineages of organisms share a most recent common ancestor
- 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 –
- Evolution as fact and theory – basis for scientific acceptance as theory (well-substantiated explanation) based on fact (empirical data and objective verifiable observation)
- Evolutionary history of life – outline of major events during evolution of life on Earth
- Timeline of evolutionary history of life – more concise outline
- Macroevolution – change above level of species, including:
- Speciation – evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.
- Natural speciation
- Artificial speciation
- Hybrid speciation –
- Anagenesis –
- Extinction –
- Speciation – evolutionary process by which new biological species arise.
- Microevolution – change within species or populations, due to mutation, selection (natural and artificial), gene flow, and genetic drift
- Evolvability – capacity of a system for adaptive evolution. Beneficial mutations are always rare, but if they are too rare, then adaptation cannot occur. Biological genomes are structured in ways that make beneficial changes less unlikely than they would otherwise be. Evolution has created not just fitter organisms, but populations of organisms that are better able to evolve.
Subfields of evolution
- Ecological genetics
- Evolutionary aesthetics
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary developmental biology
- Evolutionary ecology
- Evolutionary medicine
- Evolutionary neuroscience
- Evolutionary physiology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Evolutionary taxonomy
- Experimental evolution
- Molecular evolution
- Population genetics
- Systematics
History of evolution
History of the science of evolution
- 1860 Oxford evolution debate
- Evolutionary progress
- History of evolutionary psychology
- History of evolutionary thought
- Scopes Trial
- Modern evolutionary synthesis
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 cells
- Evolution of flagella
- Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles
- Evolution of nervous systems
- Evolution of snake venom
- Evolution of the brain
- Evolution of the eye
Evolution of molecules and genes
- Directed evolution
- Error threshold (evolution)
- Evolution of DNA
- Gene-centered view of evolution
- Genome evolution
- Hologenome theory of evolution
- Molecular evolution
Evolutionary processes
- Evolution of ageing
- Evolution of biological complexity
- Evolution of multicellularity
- Evolution of photosynthesis
- Evolutionary arms race
- Evolutionary capacitance
- Evolutionary fauna
- Evolutionary logic
- Evolutionary pressure
- Evolutionary radiation
- Evolutionary trap
- Horizontal evolution
- Horizontal gene transfer in evolution
- Human evolution (origins of society and culture)
- Inversion (evolutionary biology)
- Mosaic evolution
- Parallel evolution
- Quantum evolution
- Recurrent evolution
- Robustness (evolution)
Taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny
- Alpha taxonomy
- Biological classification
- Cladistics
- Evolutionary grade
- Lineage (evolution)
- Linnaean taxonomy
- Phylogenetics
- Taxonomy (biology)
- Taxonomic rank
Evolutionary psychology and the evolution of behaviour
- Co-operation (evolution)
- Evolution of biparental care in tropical frogs
- Evolution of dominance
- Evolution of emotion
- Evolution of eusociality
- Evolution of human intelligence
- Evolution of morality
- Evolution of schizophrenia
- Evolution of sexual reproduction
- Evolutionary aesthetics
- Evolutionary approaches to depression
- Evolutionary developmental psychology
- Evolutionary educational psychology
- Evolutionary ethics
- Evolutionary leadership theory
- Evolutionary musicology
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Evolutionary psychology of parenting
- Evolutionary psychology of religion
- Reciprocity (evolution)
- Theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology
Modelling
- Emergent evolution
- Epic of evolution
- Evolution window
- Evolutionary dynamics
- Evolutionary game theory
- Evolutionary graph theory
- Evolutionary invasion analysis
- Largest-scale trends in evolution
Religious and philosophical views of evolution
- Acceptance of evolution by religious groups
- Atheistic evolution
- Conscious evolution
- Buddhism and evolution
- Catholic Church and evolution
- Hindu views on evolution
- Islamic views on evolution
Controversy over evolution
- Creation–evolution controversy (outline)
- Criticism of evolutionary psychology
- Evolutionary argument against naturalism
- Level of support for evolution
- Objections to evolution
- Social effects of evolutionary theory
- Theology of creationism and evolution
See also
References
External links
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- General information
- Evolution on In Our Time at the BBC
- "Evolution". New Scientist. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- "Evolution Resources from the National Academies". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- "Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- "Evolution of Evolution – 150 Years of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"". National Science Foundation. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- Experiments concerning the process of biological evolution
- Lenski RE. "Experimental Evolution – Michigan State University". Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- Algorithms, games, and evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- Online lectures
- Carroll SB. "The Making of the Fittest". Retrieved May 30, 2011.
- Stearns SC. "Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior". Retrieved August 30, 2011.
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