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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Mary Leakey

Archaeology; Evolution

A British paleoanthropologist described as "a real fossil hunter" and "the real scientist in the family. " Her discoveries, some in collaboration with her husband Louis Leakey, included the 1. ...

Alfred Russel Wallace

Archaeology; Evolution

A British naturalist and contemporary of Charles Darwin. Wallace conducted research on the Amazon River and studied the zoological differences between animal species of Asia and Australia, developing ...

Thomas Malthus

Archaeology; Evolution

A British economist and demographer best known for his treatise on population growth, which states that people will always threaten to outrun the food supply unless reproduction is closely monitored. ...

David Burney

Archaeology; Evolution

A biologist whose research has focused on endangered species, paleoenvironmental studies, and causes of extinction in North America, Africa, Madagascar, Hawaii, and the West Indies.

Edmund D. Brodie III

Archaeology; Evolution

A biologist who studies the causes and evolutionary implications of interactions among traits in predators and their prey. Much of his work concentrates on the coevolutionary arms race between newts ...

Heterozygote advantage

Archaeology; Evolution

A condition in which the fitness of a heterozygote is higher than the fitness of either homozygote.

Linnaean classification

Archaeology; Evolution

A hierarchical method of naming classificatory groups, invented by the 18th-century Swedish naturalist Carl von Linn? or Linnaeus. Each individual is assigned to a species, genus, family, order, ...