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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Cenozoic

Archaeology; Evolution

The era of geologic time from 65 mya to the present, a time when the modern continents formed and modern animals and plants evolved.

orthogenesis

Archaeology; Evolution

The erroneous idea that species tend to evolve in a fixed direction because of some inherent force driving them to do so.

convergent evolution

Archaeology; Evolution

The evolution of species from different taxonomic groups toward a similar form; the development of similar characteristics by taxonomically different organisms.

Cope's rule

Archaeology; Evolution

The evolutionary increase in body size over geological time in a lineage of populations.

substitution

Archaeology; Evolution

The evolutionary replacement of one allele by another in a population.

transformism

Archaeology; Evolution

The evolutionary theory of Lamarck in which changes occur within a lineage of populations, but in which lineages do not split (i.e., no speciation occurs, at least not in the sense of the cladistic ...

Cretaceous

Archaeology; Evolution

The final geological period of the Mesozoic era that began 144 million years ago and ended 65 million years ago. The end of this period is defined most notably by the extinction of the dinosaurs in ...