Evolution

Evolution

Of or pertaining to the change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.

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Evolution

Thomas Henry Huxley

Archaeology; Evolution

British intellect, photographer, and contemporary of Darwin. He was the first to apply the theory of natural selection to humanity to explain the course of human evolution.

Geerat J. Vermeij

Archaeology; Evolution

Biologist at the Center for Population Biology of the University of California, Davis, and author of Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life. Vermeij, blind since age 3, combines autobiography and ...

Peter and Rosemary Grant

Archaeology; Evolution

Biologists whose long-term research focuses on finches in the Galapagos Islands, and the evolutionary impact of climatic and environmental changes on their populations. They live part of the year in ...

Geoffrey Miller

Archaeology; Evolution

Author of The Mating Mind, Miller is known for his research on evolutionary psychology and sexual selection. He believes that our minds evolved not only as survival machines, but also as courtship ...

coadaptation

Archaeology; Evolution

Beneficial interaction between (1) a number of genes at different loci within an organism, (2) different parts of an organism, or (3) organisms belonging to different species.

vestigial

Archaeology; Evolution

Any structures that have been greatly reduced in size and function over evolutionary time to the extent that they now appear to have little or no current function.

Raymond Dart

Archaeology; Evolution

Australian-born South African anatomist and anthropologist (1893-1988). In 1924 he described a fossil skull collected near Taung in South Africa, naming it Australopithecus africanus. Dart asserted ...