Evolution
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"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" "Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings." --Dr. Pangloss in Candide, tr. Tobias Smollett Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century, to account for the evolution of exaggerated male ornamentation by persistent, directional female choice. In most species, females are the choosy sex which discriminates among competitive males." --Sholem Stein "From the moment that the Idea of Evolution took possession of the minds of men the pure Corpuscular Philosophy together with nominalism had had their doom pronounced." --Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking (1903) by Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.
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See also
- Applications of evolution
- Biocultural evolution
- Biological imperative
- Cultural evolution
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary neuroscience
- Evolutionary psychology
- Evolutionary history of life
- Genetics
- Human evolution
- John T. Scopes
- Meme
- Molecular evolution
- Neuroculture
- Sociobiology
- Darwin. Art and the Search for Origins, an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's pivotal work On the Origin of Species.
See also
- Argument from poor design
- Biocultural evolution
- Biological classification
- Evidence of common descent
- Evolution in Variable Environment
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary ecology
- Evolutionary epistemology
- Evolutionary neuroscience
- Evolution of biological complexity
- Evolution of plants
- Project Steve
- Timeline of the evolutionary history of life
- Universal Darwinism
