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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germination

Archaeology; Evolution

The initial stages in the growth of a seed to form a seedling. The embryonic shoot (plumule) and embryonic root (radicle) emerge and grow upward and downward, respectively. Food reserves for ...

evo-devo

Archaeology; Evolution

The informal name for 'evolutionary developmental biology', a branch of evolutionary studies that seeks to contribute insights from genetics, embryology and microbiology to help scientists better ...

reproductive character displacement

Archaeology; Evolution

The increased reproductive isolation between two closely related species when they live in the same geographic region (sympatry) as compared with when they live in separate geographic regions. A kind ...

character displacement

Archaeology; Evolution

The increased difference between two closely related species where they live in the same geographic region (sympatry) as compared with where they live in different geographic regions (allopatry). ...

blending inheritance

Archaeology; Evolution

The historically influential but factually erroneous theory that organisms contain a blend of their parents' hereditary factors and pass that blend on to their offspring. Compare with Mendelian ...

paternity

Archaeology; Evolution

The identity of the father of an offspring.

wild type

Archaeology; Evolution

The genotype or phenotype, out of a set of genotypes or phenotypes of a species, that is found in nature. The expression is mainly used in lab genetics to distinguish rare mutant forms of a species ...