What is Evolution?

Evolution is 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. Over time these evolutionary processes lead to formation of new species (speciation), changes within lineages (anagenesis), and loss of species (extinction). “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.

Evolution

Fundamentals about evolution

Introduction

• Evolution
• Evolution as Fact and Theory
• Modern Evolutionary Synthesis

Basic principles

• Macroevolution
  • Adaptation
  • Speciation
• Microevolution
  • Artificial Selection
  • Natural Selection
  • Mutation
• Molecular Evolution

History

• Charles Darwin
• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
  • Development of Darwin’s Theory
  • Inception of Darwin’s Theory
  • Publication of Darwin’s Theory
  • Reaction to Darwin’s Theory
  • Reactions to On The Origin of Species
• Religious Views of Charles Darwin
• History of Evolutionary Thought
  • Scopes Trial
  • Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
• Social Effects of Evolutionary Theory

Dodd’s experiment has been easy for many others to replicate, including with other kinds of fruit flies and foods. Research in 2005 has shown that this rapid evolution of reproductive isolation may in fact be a relic of infection by Wolbachia bacteria.

Applications in other disciplines

• Applications of evolution
• Evolutionary Ethics
• Evolution of Morality
• Darwinism
• Neo-Darwinism
• Universal Darwinism
• Spiritual Evolution

Evolutionary issues

• Evolution as theory and fact

Controversy about evolution

• Creation–Evolution Controversy
• Outline of the creation–evolution controversy
• Criticism of evolutionary psychology
• Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism
• Alternatives to Evolution by Natural Selection
• Level of support for evolution
• Objections to Evolution
• Social Effects of Evolutionary Theory
• Theology of creationism and evolution

Buddhism and Evolution

Religious and philosophical views of evolution

• False Arguments About The Origin of Existence
• Acceptance of Evolution by Religious Groups
• Atheistic evolution
• Conscious evolution
• Buddhism and Evolution
• Evolution and The Catholic Church
• Hindu Views on Evolution
• Islamic Views on Evolution
• Jewish Views on Evolution
• Theistic Evolution

Prominent evolutionary biologists

• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Henry Huxley 

See also

• Cosmic Ancestry
• Selective Breeding
• Naturalism In Philosophy