evolutionary biology
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evolutionary biology (uncountable)
(evolutionary theory) A subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species and as their evolution, multiplication and diversity over time.
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The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich (UZH) Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, led the new study.