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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Ted Daeschler

Archaeology; Evolution

Palaeontologist and associate research curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Discoverer of late Devonian limbed fossils Hynerpeton bassetti and Designathus rowei (tetrapods) and Sauripterus ...

Simon Conway Morris

Archaeology; Evolution

Paleobiologist and professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University in the U. K. His research centres around the early evolution of the metazoans, and he is a leading authority ...

Mammary glands

Archaeology; Evolution

Only found in mammals, these are specialised glands that can produce milk for feeding young.

Metamorphosis

Archaeology; Evolution

One or more changes in form during the life cycle of an organism, such as an amphibian or insect, in which the juvenile stages differ from the adult. An example is the transition from a tadpole to an ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Archaeology; Evolution

The virus causes AIDS by inactivating the T cells of the immune system.

Ancestral homology

Archaeology; Evolution

Homology that evolved before the common ancestor of a set of species, and which is present in other species outside that set of species. Compare with derived homology.

Homeobox

Archaeology; Evolution

Homeoboxes are relatively short (approximately 180 base pair) sequences of DNA, characteristic of some homeotic genes (which play a central role in controlling body development). Homeoboxes code for ...