The rate of evolution is quantified as the speed of genetic or morphological change in a lineage over a period of time. The speed at which a molecular...

rate Mutation frequency Dysgenics Allele frequency Rate of evolution Genetics Cancer Scally A (December 2016). "The mutation rate in human evolution and...

within the order. The rate of evolution within the genus has been slow, and almost all its species had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene. The sole...

Quantum evolution is a component of George Gaylord Simpson's multi-tempoed theory of evolution proposed to explain the rapid emergence of higher taxonomic...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

scientists of the period had written that saltational evolution was possible. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire endorsed a theory of saltational evolution that...

rate of eye evolution is difficult to estimate because the fossil record, particularly of the lower Cambrian, is poor. How fast a circular patch of photoreceptor...

confusion regarding rates of change. His first point is to argue that phyletic gradualism—understood in the sense that evolution proceeds at a single...

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE), also known as 2.75G and under various other names, is a 2G digital mobile phone technology for packet switched...

mainly fossils. In biology, evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary...

A short-rate model, in the context of interest rate derivatives, is a mathematical model that describes the future evolution of interest rates by describing...

receptor, the canine transferrin receptor. CPV2 has a high rate of evolution, possibly due to a rate of nucleotide substitution that is more like RNA viruses...

"Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108...

Cretaceous period) and, to the extent that they exhibit low rates of morphological evolution, extant species qualify as living fossils. It must be emphasised...

terms of the parameters used to describe the rates at which one nucleotide replaces another during evolution. These models are frequently used in molecular...

selection. Adaptation is related to biological fitness, which governs the rate of evolution as measured by changes in allele frequencies. Often, two or more species...

increased genetic variation, which led to an increased rate of evolution and the diversification of eukaryotes.[citation needed] Butterfield, Nicholas J...

equilibria hypothesis suggests that anagenesis is rare and that the rate of evolution is most rapid immediately after a split which will lead to cladogenesis...

most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability (called stasis), which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution. Phyletic...

subsequent rates of molecular evolution within multiple plant lineages. The perennial trait is generally associated with a slower rate of evolution than annual...

latter that in fact sets the maximal rate of evolution by natural selection. More recent "travelling wave" models of rapid adaptation derive a term called...

evolution ("variable speedism"), which maintains that different species evolve at different rates, and that there is no reason to stress one rate of change...

organisms at about 760–1060 Ma on the basis of comparisons of the rate of evolution in closely related groups. For much of the Paleozoic Era (542–251 Ma), the...

Experimental evolution is the use of laboratory experiments or controlled field manipulations to explore evolutionary dynamics. Evolution may be observed...

to popular belief, not only are humans still evolving, their evolution since the dawn of agriculture is faster than ever before. It has been proposed...

hemoglobins from humans, mice, etc. do have comparable rates of evolution), although rapid evolution along one branch can indicate increased directional...

as to quantitative measurement of rates of evolution." Evolution 3:51–56. Gingerich, Philip D. (2019). Rates of Evolution: A Quantitative Synthesis. Cambridge:...

neutral theory of molecular evolution, the rate at which molecular changes accumulate between species should be equal to the rate of neutral mutations...

a group of organisms related by a specific tree. Stationary, neutral, independent, finite sites models (assuming a constant rate of evolution) have two...

ancestors to toxins that caused higher mutation rates and a higher rate of evolution. The coat patterns of modern giraffes may also have coincided with these...