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

Ronald Nagel

Archaeology; Evolution

A haematologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His research includes molecular, biochemical, and physiological studies of genetic red blood cell defects, including sickle cell.

Judy Kegl

Archaeology; Evolution

A linguist who works on theoretical linguistics as it applies to signed and spoken languages. Among her research interests is a study of Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Messenger RNA (mRNA)

Archaeology; Evolution

A kind of RNA produced by transcription from the DNA and which acts as the message that is decoded to form proteins.

Veronica Miller

Archaeology; Evolution

A German virologist whose research has focused on HIV-AIDS. Miller was the first researcher to announce that an interruption in drug treatment among AIDS patients may result in reversion of ...

Ernst Haeckel

Archaeology; Evolution

A German biologist who lived from 1834-1919, Haeckel was the first to divide animals into protozoan (unicellular) and metazoan (multicellular) forms. His notion of recapitulation is no longer ...

Alfred Wegener

Archaeology; Evolution

A German climatologist and geophysicist whose book, The Origins of Continents and Oceans, was the first to propose the concept of continental drift (the forerunner to the theory of plate tectonics), ...

Lynn Margulis

Archaeology; Evolution

A biologist who developed the serial endosymbiosis theory of origin of the eukaryotic cell. Although now accepted as a plausible theory, both she and her theory were ridiculed by mainstream ...