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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Gene pool

Archaeology; Evolution

All the genes in a population at a particular time.

Ulrich G. Mueller

Archaeology; Evolution

A zoologist and professor whose research aims at understanding microevolutionary forces and macroevolutionary patterns that govern the evolution of organismal interactions, particularly the evolution ...

Metazoans

Archaeology; Evolution

All animals that are multicellular and whose cells are organised into tissues and organs. In the simplest metazoans only an inner and outer layer can be distinguished.

Bryozoan

Archaeology; Evolution

A tiny marine invertebrate that forms a crust-like colony; colonies of bryozoans may look like scaly sheets on seaweed.

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.