User:Samsara/Evolution
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Processes of evolution: adaptation - macroevolution - microevolution - speciation
Population genetic mechanisms: selection - genetic drift - gene flow - mutation
Evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo) concepts: phenotypic plasticity - canalisation - modularity
Modes of evolution: anagenesis - catagenesis - cladogenesis
History: History of evolutionary thought - Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species - modern evolutionary synthesis
Other subfields: ecological genetics - human evolution - molecular evolution - phylogenetics - systematics
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Topics in population genetics
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| Key concepts: Hardy-Weinberg law | genetic linkage | linkage disequilibrium | Fisher's fundamental theorem | neutral theory |
| Selection: natural | sexual | artificial | ecological |
| Effects of selection on genomic variation: genetic hitchhiking | background selection |
| Genetic drift: small population size | population bottleneck | founder effect | coalescence |
| Founders: R.A. Fisher | J. B. S. Haldane | Sewall Wright |
| Related topics: evolution | microevolution | evolutionary game theory | fitness landscape | genetic genealogy |
| List of evolutionary biology topics |
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Topics in quantitative genetics |
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| heritability | quantitative trait locus | candidate gene | effective population size |
| Related topics: population genetics | genomics |
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Speciation guide
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| Basic concepts: species | chronospecies | speciation | cline |
| Modes of speciation: allopatric | peripatric | parapatric | sympatric | polyploidy | paleopolyploidy |
| Auxiliary mechanisms: sexual selection | assortative mating | punctuated equilibrium |
| Intermediate stages: hybrid | Haldane's rule | ring species |
Science: Origin of life · Universal common descent · Last universal ancestor · Most recent common ancestor
Mythology and religion: Origin belief · Tree of life
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| Key concepts | Genotype-phenotype distinction · Norms of reaction · Gene-environment interaction · Heritability · Quantitative genetics |
| Genetic architecture | Dominance relationship · Epistasis · Polygenic inheritance · Pleiotropy · Plasticity · Canalisation · Fitness landscape |
| Non-genetic influences | Epigenetics · Maternal effect · Dual inheritance theory |
| Developmental architecture | Segmentation · Modularity |
| Evolution of genetic systems | Evolvability · Mutational robustness · Evolution of sex |
| Influential figures | C. H. Waddington · Richard Lewontin |
| Debates | Nature versus nurture |
| List of evolutionary biology topics | |
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Topics in phylogenetics
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| Relevant fields: phylogenetics | computational phylogenetics | molecular phylogeny | cladistics |
| Basic concepts: synapomorphy | phylogenetic tree | phylogenetic network | long branch attraction |
| Phylogeny inference methods: maximum parsimony | maximum likelihood | neighbour joining | UPGMA | Bayesian inference | Least Squares |
| Current topics: PhyloCode | DNA barcoding |
| List of evolutionary biology topics |
Classification: Autosome - Sex chromosome
Evolution: Chromosomal inversion - Chromosomal translocation - Polyploidy - Paleopolyploidy
Structure: Chromatin (Euchromatin, Heterochromatin) - Nucleosome - Histone (H1, H2A, H2B, H3, H4) - Centromere - Chromatid
Classical genetics - Ecological genetics - Molecular genetics - Population genetics - Quantitative genetics
Related topics: Geneticist - Genomics - Medical genetics - Reverse genetics - Molecular evolution
