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    Evolutionary thought, the recognition that species change over time and the perceived understanding of how such processes work, has roots in antiquity—in...
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  • Origin of Species is usually considered to be the starting point of contemporary understandings of evolution. The history of evolutionary thought extends...
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    in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection...
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  • important stage in the history of evolutionary thought and influenced the subsequent reaction to Darwin's theory. Transmutation was one of the names commonly...
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    Caricatures of Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory in 19th-century England Darwinism – Theory of biological evolution History of evolutionary thought By...
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    the possibility of common descent. Though he was opposed to evolution, Buffon is a key figure in the history of evolutionary thought; his work would influence...
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  • swift rise from 200 Ma to the present. History of evolutionary thought On the Origin of Species Speciation Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates Treatise...
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    modern evolutionary synthesis. List of sequenced eukaryotic genomes History of molecular biology History of RNA Biology History of evolutionary thought One...
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  • biological evolution began to emerge, adding further strands in the history of evolutionary thought. The word evolution (from the Latin evolutio, meaning "to unroll...
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    Ecology portal Environment portal Evolutionary biology portal Evolutionary history of life History of evolutionary thought Naturalism (philosophy) Nature...
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  • The evolutionary psychology of religion is the study of religious belief using evolutionary psychology principles. It is one approach to the psychology...
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    enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes. Darwin Awards Evidence of common descent History of evolutionary thought Modern evolutionary synthesis Neural...
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  • timeline of the evolutionary history of life represents the current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life on planet...
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    of biological complexity History of evolutionary thought Structuralism Teleonomy Teleological argument Gould, Stephen J. (2001). The lying stones of Marrakech :...
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  • John C. Greene (historian) (category American historians of science)
    was an American historian of science. He is known for his influential study of the history of evolutionary thought, The Death of Adam, for academic controversies...
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  • Genetic entropy Haldane's dilemma Hindu views on evolution History of evolutionary thought History of the creation–evolution controversy Intelligent design...
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    Hardy–Weinberg principle – heredity – hierarchy of life – history of evolutionary thoughthistory of speciation – homologous chromosomes – homology (biology)...
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    evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family...
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    book on evolutionary theory. History of biology History of evolutionary thought History of speciation Modern evolutionary synthesis Transmutation of species...
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    The history of New Thought started in the 1830s, with roots in the United States and England. As a spiritual movement with roots in metaphysical beliefs...
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  • historical study of classical evolutionary thought, drawing extensively upon primary documents; the second is a constructive critique of the modern synthesis...
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    Peter J. Bowler (category History of biology)
    historian of biology who has written extensively on the history of evolutionary thought, the history of the environmental sciences, and on the history of genetics...
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    discredit to the memory of a man and his much more comprehensive system." The period of the history of evolutionary thought between Darwin's death in...
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    shift History of evolutionary thought Creation–evolution controversy List of common misconceptions, including those about scientific subjects List of discredited...
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  • since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution...
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    History of biotechnology History of botany History of ecology History of genetics History of evolutionary thought: Darwinism Eclipse of Darwinism (Lamarckism...
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    Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory...
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    thought to be limited by the supply of mutations. Before Darwin, biologists commonly believed in saltationism, the possibility of large evolutionary jumps...
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    Charles Darwin (category British evolutionary biologists)
    and American voyages of scientific exploration History of biology History of evolutionary thought List of coupled cousins List of multiple discoveries...
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  • Historians of science such as Peter J. Bowler have used the same phrase as a label for the period within the history of evolutionary thought from the 1880s...
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