Biology Category
Understand evolution by natural selection, common descent, speciation, and the evidence supporting evolutionary theory.
Welcome to the Evolution category of this site. Here you will find clear, detailed articles covering key topics related to Evolution.
A detailed guide to adaptive landscapes: peaks, valleys, and evolutionary walks. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to adaptive radiation: rapid species diversification. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to animal domestication: genetic changes under selection. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to coevolution: reciprocal adaptation between species. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to common descent and the universal tree of life. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to convergent evolution: similar adaptations from independent lineages. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relev
A detailed guide to endosymbiosis: the evolutionary origin of eukaryotic cells. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evidence for evolution: fossils, dna, and anatomy. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolution of aging: why senescence evolves. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolution of dispersal: costs and benefits of moving. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolution of flight: gliding to powered flight across vertebrates. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevan
A detailed guide to evolution of land plants: colonizing the terrestrial world. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolution of multicellularity: from single cells to complex organisms. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical rel
A detailed guide to evolution of sociality: the origins of group living. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary arms races: escalation in nature. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary constraints: why evolution is not perfect. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary developmental biology: evo-devo connections. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary game theory: cooperation, conflict, and strategy. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary medicine: why bodies lag behind modern life. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to evolutionary responses to climate change in action. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to extinction: causes, patterns, and mass extinctions. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to fitness in evolution: measuring reproductive success. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to gene duplication and novelty: how new functions arise. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to genetic drift: how random chance drives evolutionary change. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to genetics of adaptation: how populations become fit. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to hardy-weinberg equilibrium: the null model of evolution. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to homology and analogy: comparing traits across species. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to human evolution: from primates to modern humans. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to hybrid zones and introgression: gene flow between species. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to island biogeography and evolution: species on islands. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to kin selection and inclusive fitness: the evolution of altruism. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to life history evolution: trade-offs between growth, reproduction, and survival. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clin
A detailed guide to mammalian ear and jaw: evolution of transitional structures. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to microbial evolution: watching adaptation in real time. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to microevolution and macroevolution: scales of change. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to molecular clocks: dating evolution with dna. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to mosaic evolution: differential rates of trait change. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to natural selection: darwin's mechanism for evolution. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to neutral theory of molecular evolution: drift versus selection. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to phenotypic plasticity: how the environment shapes trait expression. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical releva
A detailed guide to phylogenetics: reconstructing evolutionary trees. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to punctuated equilibrium and gradualism: the tempo of evolution. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to recent human adaptation: lactose tolerance and altitude. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to sexual selection: mate choice and competition. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to speciation: how new species form. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the evolution of sex: costs, benefits, and mechanisms. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the origin of life: from chemistry to first cells. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to the red queen hypothesis: host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance
A detailed guide to vertebrate brain evolution: encephalization over time. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
A detailed guide to vestigial structures: evolutionary remnants and evidence. Covers key mechanisms, biological significance, and clinical relevance.
