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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
Leigh Van Valen
Archaeology; Evolution
An evolutionary biologist who came up with the model of the Red Queen -- the living chess piece that Alice encounters in Through the Looking Glass who must keep running as fast as she can to stay in ...
recombination
Archaeology; Evolution
An event, occurring by the crossing-over of chromosomes during meiosis, in which DNA is exchanged between a pair of chromosomes of a pair. Thus, two genes that were previously unlinked, being on ...
inversion
Archaeology; Evolution
An event (or the product of the event) in which a sequence of nucleotides in the DNA is reversed, or inverted. Sometimes inversions are visible in the structure of the chromosomes.
Isaac Newton
Archaeology; Evolution
An English physician and mathematician, considered the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. He is best known for his explanation of gravity and for laying the ...
John Maynard Smith
Archaeology; Evolution
An eminent evolutionary biologist and author of many books on evolution, both for scientists and the general public. A professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, his research interests include ...
embryo
Archaeology; Evolution
An early stage of animal development that begins after division of the zygote (the earliest stage, in which joined egg and sperm have not yet divided).
W.E. Castle
Archaeology; Evolution
An early experimental geneticist, his 1901 paper was the first on Mendelism in America. His Genetics of Domestic Rabbits, published in 1930 by Harvard University Press, covers such topics as the ...
