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[[File:Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1868.jpg|thumb|Charles Darwin founded modern evolutionary biology with his 1859 book, ''The Origin of Species''.]]

This is a '''list of topics in evolutionary biology'''.
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== A ==
[[Biology:Abiogenesis|abiogenesis]] – [[Biology:Adaptation|adaptation]] – [[Biology:Adaptive mutation|adaptive mutation]] – adaptive radiation – [[Biology:Allele|allele]] – [[Biology:Allele frequency|allele frequency]] – allochronic speciation – [[Biology:Allopatric speciation|allopatric speciation]] – [[Philosophy:Altruism|altruism]] – : anagenesis – [[Biology:Anti-predator adaptation|anti-predator adaptation]] – [[Biology:Applications of evolution|applications of evolution]] – [[Earth:Aposematism|aposematism]] – ''[[Biology:Archaeopteryx|Archaeopteryx]]'' – aquatic adaptation – artificial selection – [[Biology:Atavism|atavism]]

== B ==
[[Biography:Henry Walter Bates|Henry Walter Bates]] – [[Biology:Biological organisation|biological organisation]] – ''[[Biology:Brassica oleracea|Brassica oleracea]]'' – [[Biology:Breed|breed]]

==C==
[[Earth:Cambrian explosion|Cambrian explosion]] – [[Biology:Camouflage|camouflage]] – [[Biography:Sean B. Carroll|Sean B. Carroll]] – [[Biology:Catagenesis|catagenesis]] – [[Biology:Gene-centered view of evolution|gene-centered view of evolution]] – [[Biology:Cephalization|cephalization]] – Sergei Chetverikov – [[Biology:Chronobiology|chronobiology]] – [[Biology:Chronospecies|chronospecies]] – [[Biology:Clade|clade]] – [[Biology:Cladistics|cladistics]] – climatic adaptation – [[Biology:Coalescent theory|coalescent theory]] – co-evolution – [[Biology:Co-operation (evolution)|co-operation]] – [[Biology:Coefficient of relationship|coefficient of relationship]] – [[Biology:Common descent|common descent]] – [[Biology:Convergent evolution|convergent evolution]] – [[Unsolved:Creation–evolution controversy|creation–evolution controversy]] – [[Biology:Cultivar|cultivar]] – conspecific song preference

== D ==
[[Biology:Darwin (unit)|Darwin (unit)]] – [[Biography:Charles Darwin|Charles Darwin]] – [[Biology:Darwinism|Darwinism]] – [[Biology:Darwin's finches|Darwin's finches]] – [[Biography:Richard Dawkins|Richard Dawkins]] – [[Biology:Directed mutagenesis|directed mutagenesis]] – [[Biology:Directed evolution|Directed evolution]] – [[Biology:Directional selection|directional selection]] – [[Biography:Theodosius Dobzhansky|Theodosius Dobzhansky]] – dog breeding – domestication – [[History:Domestication of the horse|domestication of the horse]]

== E ==
[[Biology:E. coli long-term evolution experiment|''E. coli'' long-term evolution experiment]] – [[Earth:Ecological genetics|ecological genetics]] – [[Biology:Ecological selection|ecological selection]] – [[Earth:Ecological speciation|ecological speciation]] – ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'' – endosymbiosis – [[Biology:Error threshold (evolution)|error threshold (evolution)]] – [[Biology:Evidence of common descent|evidence of common descent]] – [[Biology:Evolution|evolution]] – [[Biology:Evolutionary arms race|evolutionary arms race]] – [[Biology:Evolutionary capacitance|evolutionary capacitance]]

''Evolution:'' [[Biology:Evolution of ageing|of ageing]] – of the brain – [[Biology:Evolution of cetaceans|of cetaceans]] – of complexity – [[Biology:Evolution of dinosaurs|of dinosaurs]] – [[Biology:Evolution of the eye|of the eye]] – of fish – [[Biology:Evolution of the horse|of the horse]] – of insects – [[Philosophy:Evolution of human intelligence|of human intelligence]] – [[Biology:Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles|of mammalian auditory ossicles]] – [[Biology:Evolution of mammals|of mammals]] – of monogamy – [[Biology:Evolution of sexual reproduction|of sex]] – [[Biology:Evolution of sirenians|of sirenians]] – [[Biology:Evolution of tetrapods|of tetrapods]] – [[Biology:Evolution of the wolf|of the wolf]]

[[Biology:Evolutionary developmental biology|evolutionary developmental biology]] – [[Biology:Evolutionary dynamics|evolutionary dynamics]] – [[Evolutionary game theory|evolutionary game theory]] – [[Biology:Evolutionary history of life|evolutionary history of life]] – [[Biology:Evolutionary history of plants|evolutionary history of plants]] – [[Medicine:Evolutionary medicine|evolutionary medicine]] – evolutionary neuroscience – [[Philosophy:Evolutionary psychology|evolutionary psychology]] – evolutionary radiation – evolutionarily stable strategy – [[Biology:Evolutionary taxonomy|evolutionary taxonomy]] – evolutionary tree – [[Biology:Evolvability|evolvability]] – [[Biology:Experimental evolution|experimental evolution]] – [[Biology:Exaptation|exaptation]] – [[Biology:Extinction|extinction]]

⋈== F ==
Joe Felsenstein – [[Biography:Ronald Fisher|R.A. Fisher]] – Fisher's reproductive value – [[Biology:Fitness|fitness]] – [[Biology:Fitness landscape|fitness landscape]] – E.B. Ford – [[Biology:Fossil|fossil]]

== G ==
[[Earth:Galápagos Islands|Galápagos Islands]] – [[Biology:Gene|gene]] – gene-centric view of evolution – [[Biology:Gene duplication|gene duplication]] – [[Biology:Gene flow|gene flow]] – [[Biology:Gene pool|gene pool]] – [[Biology:Genetic drift|genetic drift]] – [[Biology:Genetic hitchhiking|genetic hitchhiking]] – [[Biology:Genetic recombination|genetic recombination]] – [[Biology:Genetic variation|genetic variation]] – [[Biology:Genotype|genotype]] – [[Philosophy:Gene–environment correlation|gene–environment correlation]] – [[Philosophy:Gene–environment interaction|gene–environment interaction]] – [[Biology:Genotype–phenotype distinction|genotype–phenotype distinction]] – [[Biography:Stephen Jay Gould|Stephen Jay Gould]] – [[Earth:Gradualism|gradualism]] – [[Biography:Peter and Rosemary Grant|Peter and Rosemary Grant]] – [[Biology:Group selection|group selection]]

== H ==
[[Biography:J. B. S. Haldane|J. B. S. Haldane]] – [[Biography:W. D. Hamilton|W. D. Hamilton]] – [[Biology:Hardy–Weinberg principle|Hardy–Weinberg principle]] – [[Biology:Heredity|heredity]] – hierarchy of life – history of evolutionary thought – [[Biology:History of speciation|history of speciation]] – homologous chromosomes – [[Biology:Homology|homology (biology)]] – [[Biology:Horizontal gene transfer|horizontal gene transfer]] – [[Biology:Human evolution|human evolution]] –  [[Biology:Human evolutionary genetics|human evolutionary genetics]] – [[Biology:Human vestigiality|human vestigiality]] – [[Biography:Julian Huxley|Julian Huxley]] – [[Biography:Thomas Henry Huxley|Thomas Henry Huxley]]

== I ==
[[Biology:Inclusive fitness|inclusive fitness]] – insect evolution – Invertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. invertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology)

== K ==
[[Biology:Karyotype|karyotype]] – [[Philosophy:Kin selection|kin selection]] – [[Biography:Motoo Kimura|Motoo Kimura]] – [[Biology:Koinophilia|koinophilia]]

== L ==
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck – [[Biology:Lamarckism|Lamarckism]] – [[Biology:Landrace|landrace]] – [[Social:Language|language]] – [[Biology:Last universal common ancestor|last universal common ancestor]] – [[Biology:Level of support for evolution|level of support for evolution]] – [[Biography:Richard Lewontin|Richard Lewontin]] – [[Biology:List of gene families|list of gene families]] – [[Biology:List of human evolution fossils|list of human evolution fossils]] – life-history theory – [[Biography:Wen-Hsiung Li|Wen-Hsiung Li]] – living fossils – Charles Lyell

== M ==
[[Biology:Macroevolution|macroevolution]] – macromutation – ''[[Biology:The Major Transitions in Evolution|The Major Transitions in Evolution]]'' – [[Biology:Maladaptation|maladaptation]] – ''The Malay Archipelago'' – mass extinctions – mating systems – [[Biography:John Maynard Smith|John Maynard Smith]] – [[Biography:Ernst Mayr|Ernst Mayr]] – [[Biography:Gregor Mendel|Gregor Mendel]] – [[Philosophy:Memetics|memetics]] – [[Biology:Mendelian inheritance|Mendelian inheritance]] – [[Biology:Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation|Mesozoic–Cenozoic radiation]] – [[Biology:Microevolution|microevolution]] – [[Biology:Micropaleontology|micropaleontology]] ({{aka}} micropaleobiology) – [[Biology:Miller–Urey experiment|Miller–Urey experiment]] – [[Biology:Mimicry|mimicry]] – [[Biology:Mitochondrial Eve|Mitochondrial Eve]] – [[Biology:Modern synthesis (20th century)|modern evolutionary synthesis]] – [[Biology:Molecular clock|molecular clock]] – [[Biology:Molecular evolution|molecular evolution]] – molecular phylogeny – molecular systematics – [[Biology:Mosaic evolution|mosaic evolution]] – [[Biology:Most recent common ancestor|most recent common ancestor]] – [[Biography:Hermann Joseph Muller|Hermann Joseph Muller]] – [[Biology:Muller's ratchet|Muller's ratchet]] – [[Biology:Mutation|mutation]] – [[Biology:Mutational meltdown|mutational meltdown]]

== N ==
[[Biology:Natural selection|natural selection]] – natural genetic engineering – [[Philosophy:Nature versus nurture|nature versus nurture]] – [[Biology:Neo-Darwinism|Neo-Darwinism]] – [[Biology:Neutral theory of molecular evolution|neutral theory of molecular evolution]] – Baron Franz Nopcsa – "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"

== O ==
[[Biography:Susumu Ohno|Susumu Ohno]] – Aleksandr Oparin – ''On The Origin of Species'' – [[Earth:Ordovician radiation|Ordovician radiation]] – [[Biology:Origin of birds|origin of birds]] – [[Philosophy:Origin of language|origin of language]] – orthologous genes

== P ==
[[Biology:Paleoanthropology|paleoanthropology]] – [[Biology:Paleobiology|paleobiology]] – [[Biology:Paleobotany|paleobotany]] – [[Biology:Paleontology|paleontology]] – [[Biology:Paleozoology|paleozoology]] (of vertebrates – of invertebrates) – [[Biology:Parallel evolution|parallel evolution]] – paraphyletic – particulate inheritance – peppered moth – [[Biology:Peppered moth evolution|peppered moth evolution]] – [[Biology:Peripatric speciation|peripatric speciation]] – [[Biology:Phenotype|phenotype]] – [[Biology:Phylogenetics|phylogenetics]] – [[Biology:Phylogeny|phylogeny]] – [[Biology:Phylogenetic tree|phylogenetic tree]] – ''[[Biology:Pikaia|Pikaia]]'' – [[Biology:Plant evolution|Plant evolution]] – [[Biology:Polymorphism|polymorphism (biology)]] – [[Social:Population|population]] – [[Biology:Population bottleneck|population bottleneck]] – population dynamics – [[Biology:Population genetics|population genetics]] – preadaptation – [[Social:Prehistoric archaeology|prehistoric archaeology]] – ''Principles of Geology'' – [[Biography:George R. Price|George R. Price]] – [[Biology:Price equation|Price equation]] – [[Biology:Punctuated equilibrium|punctuated equilibrium]]

== Q ==
[[Biology:Quantum evolution|quantum evolution]] – [[Biology:Quasispecies model|quasispecies model]]

== R ==
race (biology) – [[Biology:Red Queen hypothesis|Red Queen hypothesis]] – [[Biology:Recapitulation theory|recapitulation theory]] – [[Biology:Recent African origin of modern humans|recent African origin of modern humans]] – recombination – [[Biography:Bernhard Rensch|Bernhard Rensch]] – [[Biology:Reinforcement (speciation)|reinforcement (speciation)]] – [[Biology:Reproductive coevolution in Ficus|reproductive coevolution in ''Ficus'']] – ''r/K'' selection theory

== S ==
selection – [[Biology:Selective breeding|selective breeding]] – selfish DNA – ''[[Biology:The Selfish Gene|The Selfish Gene]]'' – [[Biology:Sexual selection|sexual selection]] – [[Biology:Signalling theory|signalling theory]] – [[Philosophy:Sociobiology|sociobiology]] – [[Philosophy:Social effects of evolutionary theory|social effects of evolutionary theory]] – [[Biology:Species|species]] – [[Biology:Speciation|speciation]] – [[Biology:Species flock|species flock]] – [[Philosophy:Sperm competition|sperm competition]] – [[Biology:Stabilizing selection|stabilizing selection]] – [[Biology:Strain|strain (biology)]] – [[Biology:Subspecies|subspecies]] – [[Biology:Survival of the fittest|survival of the fittest]]  – [[Biology:Symbiogenesis|symbiogenesis]] – [[Biology:Systematics|systematics]] – [[Biography:George Gaylord Simpson|George Gaylord Simpson]] – [[Biography:G. Ledyard Stebbins|G. Ledyard Stebbins]]

== T ==
''[[Biology:Tiktaalik|Tiktaalik]]'' – timeline of evolution – trait (biological) – transgressive phenotype – [[Biology:Transitional fossil|transitional fossil]] – transposon – [[Biology:Tree of life|tree of life]] – [[Biology:Triangle of U|triangle of U]]

== U ==
[[Biology:Unit of selection|unit of selection]]

== V ==
[[Biology:Variety (botany)|variety (botany)]] – vertebrate paleontology (a.k.a. vertebrate paleobiology or paleozoology) – [[Biology:Viral evolution|viral evolution]] – ''[[Biology:The Voyage of the Beagle|The Voyage of the Beagle]]'' – [[Biology:Vestigiality|vestigiality]]

== W ==
[[Biography:Alfred Russel Wallace|Alfred Russel Wallace]] – Wallace effect – Wallace Line – [[Biology:Wallacea|Wallacea]] – [[Biography:George C. Williams (biologist)|George C. Williams (biologist)]] – Edward O. Wilson – [[Biography:Sewall Wright|Sewall Wright]]

== Y ==
[[Biology:Y-chromosomal Adam|Y-chromosomal Adam]] – Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups

==See also==
* List of biology topics
* List of biochemistry topics


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