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Parent topics

• Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. ^[e]
• Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. ^[e]
• Evolution [r]: A change over time in the proportions of individual organisms differing genetically. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Natural selection [r]: The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics ^[e]
• Adaptation [r]: Describes the event of a trait being selected by the mechanism of natural selection. ^[e]
• Artificial selection [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Selective breeding [r]: Process of breeding plants and animals for particular genetic traits and desirable characteristics. ^[e]
• Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Creationism [r]: is the belief that the world and the universe was created by God. ^[e]
• Social Darwinism [r]: Efforts to draw political conclusions from the theory of evolution by natural selection. ^[e]

• Herbert Spencer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Samuel Wilberforce [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joseph Hooker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Thomas Huxley [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Asa Gray [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Voyage of the Beagle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alfred Russel Wallace [r]: (1823 – 1913) British explorer and naturalist, discovered the principle of natural selection independent of Darwin. ^[e]
• Charles Lyell [r]: Scottish geologist (1797-1875) credited with having popularized uniformitarianism as well as his belief that science and religion should be kept seperate. ^[e]
• Erasmus Darwin [r]: (1731-1802) Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist; grandfather of Charles Darwin. ^[e]
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck [r]: Add brief definition or description

• Modern evolutionary synthesis [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Mendelian genetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Ronald Fisher [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Sewall Wright [r]: (1889–1988) A American geneticist known for his work on evolutionary theory and path analysis and one of the founders of theoretical population genetics. ^[e]
  • J. B. S. Haldane [r]: (1892-1964) One of the founders of theoretical population genetics and widely known for his work in enzyme kinetics. ^[e]

• Evolutionary biology [r]: The study of the origin and descent of species, as well as their change, multiplication, and diversity over time. ^[e]
• Population biology [r]: The study of life at the species level. ^[e]
• Species (biology) [r]: A fundamental unit of biological classification - a set of individual organisms that produce fertile offspring. ^[e]