In evolutionary biology, contingency describes how the outcome of evolution may be affected by the history of a particular lineage. Evolution is a historical...

statistics Contingency theory, in organizational theory Contingency (evolutionary biology) Contingency management, in medicine Contingent claim, in finance...

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced...

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a strategy (or set of strategies) that is impermeable when adopted by a population in adaptation to a specific...

record or migrated surviving in less arid climates. Cladistics Contingency (evolutionary biology) Devolution Chronospecies "Sympatric speciation". Retrieved...

involves teleology) Contingency (evolutionary biology) – effect of evolutionary history on outcomes However, evolutionary developmental biology has identified...

In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement' and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing)...

description of the amount of change occurring in processes investigated by evolutionary biology, but the formal concept is often extended to other areas of research...

the earlier modern synthesis of evolutionary biology that took place between 1918 and 1942. The extended evolutionary synthesis was called for in the...

individuals of that species. However, discoveries in the field of evolutionary developmental biology have demonstrated that even relatively small differences in...

families of problems and data structures. Evolutionary computation is also sometimes used in evolutionary biology as an in silico experimental procedure...

sometimes likened to speculative biology. Contingency (evolutionary biology) – the scientific study of evolutionary outcomes differing due to differences...

O. Wilson defined sociobiology as "the extension of population biology and evolutionary theory to social organization". Sociobiology is based on the premise...

Zachary D.; Borland, Christina Z.; Lenski, Richard E. (2008). "Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of...

mid-20th century. The addition of molecular genetics has led to evolutionary developmental biology, which explains evolution at the molecular level. While genotypes...

and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics. In evolutionary biology, all life on Earth is theoretically part of a single phylogenetic...

into evolutionary theory. Discoveries in evolutionary biology have made a significant impact not just within the traditional branches of biology, but...

Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers...

perennial debates over the proper balance of adaptationism and contingency in evolutionary theory. In the 1970s Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed...

evolution but has since been accepted due to recent evidence in evolutionary biology (see the current status section). In recent years there are some...

Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological approach to the study of language. Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as...

idea has inspired many research involving evolutionary contingency from palaeontology to molecular biology. He used Pikaia among the Cambrian animals...

undeniable facts." Rather, he argued, The two major contributions that evolutionary biology may be able to make to this problem are, first, to justify and promote...

In evolutionary biology, fitness landscapes or adaptive landscapes (types of evolutionary landscapes) are used to visualize the relationship between genotypes...

within and among populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology. Studies in this branch of biology examine such phenomena as adaptation, speciation...

In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory that proposes that once a species appears in the fossil...

In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment...

physiology and evolutionary biology. Practitioners in the field come from a variety of backgrounds, including physiology, evolutionary biology, ecology, and...

anthropology, medicine, nursing, and biology agreed upon 14 core principles intrinsic to the education and practice of evolutionary medicine. These 14 principles...

In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms,...