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

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 ...

Australopithecus afarensis

Archaeology; Evolution

An early australopithecine species that was bipedal; known fossils date between 3. 6 and 2. 9 mya (for example, Lucy).

Charles Murray

Archaeology; Evolution

An author and policy analyst who has written many controversial and influential books on social policy. He is coauthor with Richard J. Herrnstein of The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure ...

Gregor Mendel

Archaeology; Evolution

An Austrian monk whose plant breeding experiments, begun in 1856, led to insights into the mechanisms of heredity that are the foundation of genetics today. His work was ignored in his lifetime and ...

Gina Kirchweger

Archaeology; Evolution

An Austrian biologist interested in the biological evolution of skin tone. Her essay, "The Biology of Skin Color," concerns the evolution of race.

Lineage

Archaeology; Evolution

An ancestor-descendant sequence of (1) populations, (2) cells, or (3) genes.

Ted R. Schultz

Archaeology; Evolution

An ant systematist at the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Schultz studies the evolution of the symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and the fungi they cultivate.