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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 ==
[[abiogenesis]] – [[adaptation]] – [[adaptive mutation]] – [[adaptive radiation]] – [[allele]] – [[allele frequency]] – [[allochronic speciation]] – [[allopatric speciation]] – [[altruism]] – [[: anagenesis]] – [[anti-predator adaptation]] – [[applications of evolution]] – [[Apomorphy and synapomorphy|apomorphy]] – [[aposematism]] – ''[[Archaeopteryx]]'' – [[aquatic adaptation]] – [[artificial selection]] – [[atavism]]

== B ==
[[Henry Walter Bates]] – [[biological organisation]] – [[Black Queen hypothesis]] – ''[[Brassica oleracea]]'' – [[breed]]

==C==
[[Cambrian explosion]] – [[camouflage]] – [[Sean B. Carroll]] – [[catagenesis (biology)|catagenesis]] – [[gene-centered view of evolution]] – [[cephalization]] – [[Sergei Chetverikov]] – [[chronobiology]] – [[chronospecies]] – [[clade]] – [[cladistics]] – [[climatic adaptation]] – [[coalescent theory]] – [[co-evolution]] – [[Co-operation (evolution)|co-operation]] – [[coefficient of relationship]] – [[common descent]] – [[convergent evolution]] – [[creation–evolution controversy]] – [[cultivar]] – [[conspecific song preference]]

== D ==
[[Darwin (unit)]] – [[Charles Darwin]] – [[Darwinism]] – [[Darwin's finches]] – [[Richard Dawkins]] – [[directed mutagenesis]] – [[Directed evolution]] – [[directional selection]] – [[disruptive selection]] – [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]] – [[dog breeding]] – [[domestication]] – [[domestication of the horse]]

== E ==
[[E. coli long-term evolution experiment|''E. coli'' long-term evolution experiment]] – [[ecological genetics]] – [[ecological selection]] – [[ecological speciation]] – [[Endless Forms Most Beautiful (book)|''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'']] – [[endosymbiosis]] – [[error threshold (evolution)]] – [[evidence of common descent]] – [[evolution]] – [[evolutionary arms race]] – [[evolutionary capacitance]]

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

[[evolutionary developmental biology]] – [[evolutionary dynamics]] – [[evolutionary game theory]] – [[evolutionary history of life]] – [[evolutionary history of plants]] – [[evolutionary medicine]] – [[evolutionary neuroscience]] – [[evolutionary psychology]] – [[evolutionary radiation]] – [[evolutionarily stable strategy]] – [[evolutionary taxonomy]] – [[evolutionary tree]] – [[evolvability]] – [[experimental evolution]] – [[exaptation]] – [[extinction]]

== F ==
[[Joe Felsenstein]] – [[Ronald Fisher|R.A. Fisher]] – [[Fisher's reproductive value]] – [[fitness (biology)|fitness]] – [[fitness landscape]] – [[fixation index]] (F<small>ST</small>) – [[fluctuating selection]] – [[E.B. Ford]] – [[fossil]] – [[frequency-dependent selection]]

== G ==
[[Galápagos Islands]] – [[gene]] – [[gene-centric view of evolution]] – [[gene duplication]] – [[gene flow]] – [[gene pool]] – [[genetic drift]] – [[genetic hitchhiking]] – [[genetic recombination]] – [[genetic variation]] – [[genotype]] – [[gene–environment correlation]] – [[gene–environment interaction]] – [[genotype–phenotype distinction]] – [[Stephen Jay Gould]] – [[gradualism]] – [[Peter and Rosemary Grant]] – [[group selection]]

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

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

== K ==
[[karyotype]] – [[kin selection]] – [[Motoo Kimura]] – [[koinophilia]]

== L ==
[[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]] – [[Lamarckism]] – [[landrace]] – [[language]] – [[last universal common ancestor]] – [[level of support for evolution]] – [[Richard Lewontin]] – [[list of gene families]] – [[list of human evolution fossils]] – [[life-history theory]] – [[Wen-Hsiung Li]] – [[living fossils]] – [[Charles Lyell]]

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

== N ==
[[natural selection]] – [[natural genetic engineering]] – [[nature versus nurture]] – [[Negative selection (natural selection)|negative selection]] – [[Neo-Darwinism]] – [[neutral theory of molecular evolution]] – Baron [[Franz Nopcsa]] – "[[Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution]]"

== O ==
[[Susumu Ohno]] – [[Aleksandr Oparin]] – ''[[On The Origin of Species]]'' – [[Ordovician radiation]] – [[origin of birds]] – [[origin of language]] – [[orthologous gene]]s (orthologs)

== P ==
[[paleoanthropology]] – [[paleobiology]] – [[paleobotany]] – [[paleontology]] – [[paleozoology]] ([[vertebrate paleontology|of vertebrates]] – [[invertebrate paleontology|of invertebrates]]) – [[parallel evolution]] – [[paralogous genes]] (paralogs) – [[parapatric speciation]] – [[paraphyletic]] – [[particulate inheritance theory|particulate inheritance]] – [[peppered moth]] – [[peppered moth evolution]] – [[peripatric speciation]] – [[phenotype]] – [[phylogenetics]] – [[phylogeny]] – [[phylogenetic tree]] – ''[[Pikaia]]'' – [[Plant evolution]] – [[polymorphism (biology)]] – [[population]] – [[population bottleneck]] – [[population dynamics]] – [[population genetics]] – [[preadaptation]] – [[prehistoric archaeology]] – ''[[Principles of Geology]]'' – [[George R. Price]] – [[Price equation]] – [[punctuated equilibrium]]

== Q ==
[[quantum evolution]] – [[quasispecies model]]

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

== S ==
[[Selection (biology)|selection]] – [[selective breeding]] – [[selfish DNA]] – ''[[The Selfish Gene]]'' – [[sexual selection]] – [[signalling theory]] – [[sociobiology]] – [[social effects of evolutionary theory]] – [[species]] – [[speciation]] – [[species flock]] – [[sperm competition]] – [[stabilizing selection]] – [[strain (biology)]] – [[subspecies]] – [[survival of the fittest]]  – [[symbiogenesis]] – [[sympatric speciation]] – [[Apomorphy and synapomorphy|synapomorphy]] – [[systematics]] – [[George Gaylord Simpson]] – [[G. Ledyard Stebbins]]

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

== U ==
[[unit of selection]]

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

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

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

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

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