Evolution Summary

Biological Evolution Biological evolution is the change in the allele frequency of a gene in a population over time. That is to say some genetic change has happened in the population between generatio... Read more

Evolution of Plants, History Of The conception that living organisms are changing or mutable originated in the thoughts of Empedocles, an ancient Greek philosopher (c. 490-430 B. C. E.). He drew on th... Read more

Evolution, Natural and Sexual Selection, and Their Influences on the Sciences Overview Although evolution was not an altogether new topic, Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) brought it into the limelig... Read more

New Directions in Evolutionary Theory Overview Darwinian evolution, that is, evolution through the accumulation of almost undetectable changes over millions of years, has been the mainstay of evolutio... Read more

Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolution is the process of biological change over time. Such changes, especially at the genetic level, are accomplished by a complex set of evolutionary mechanisms that act to... Read more

Evolution Evolution is the gradual, cumulative change over time of the characteristics of groups of organisms, in a heritable manner. Eventually, these minute changes add up to produce an individual t... Read more

Evolution Evolution is the gradual, cumulative change over time of the characteristics of groups of organisms, in a heritable manner. Eventually, these minute changes add up to produce an individual t... Read more

Evolution and Evolutionary Mechanisms Evolution is the process of biological change over time. Such changes, especially at the genetic level are accomplished by a complex set of evolutionary mechanism... Read more

Evolutionary Theory The concept of evolution first emerged in the early nineteenth century. Up until that time, the post-classical Western world had generally regarded the account of creation provided... Read more

Evolution: Biological, Social, Cultural The diverse forms of life on earth have emerged probably from a common source, through a process of evolution that has the following characteristics: The cours... Read more

Evolutionary Theory While the fixity of species was the generally accepted view before Charles Darwin, he was not the first to propose that evolution, understood as the transformation of one species i... Read more

Evolution means gradual change. Usually the word implies not just change but gradual improvement or progress as well. Nowadays the word is generally used to refer to a specific theory about life on Ea... Read more