Alternatives to Darwinian evolution have been proposed by scholars investigating biology to explain signs of evolution and the relatedness of different...

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the...

Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...

process of evolution has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation. The scientific theory of evolution by natural selection was conceived...

of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially...

Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin...

ageing in somatic cells. Alternatives to evolution by natural selection – List of alternatives to Darwinian natural selectionPages displaying short descriptions...

of scientism.[non-primary source needed] Alternatives to evolution by natural selection Darwinism Evolution as fact and theory Evidence of common descent...

Directed evolution (DE) is a method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection to steer proteins or nucleic acids toward...

least to be of relatively minor importance. Four major alternatives to natural selection were in play in the 19th century: Theistic evolution, the belief...

difficult to explain from an organism-centered viewpoint. The gene-centered view of evolution is a synthesis of the theory of evolution by natural selection, the...

early test of Charles Darwin's natural selection in action, and it remains a classic example in the teaching of evolution. In 1978, Sewall Wright described...

Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought is a 1966 book by the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams...

are not quite the same between the Earth and Moon. Alternatives to evolution by natural selection Clarence King Flood basalt Glacial lake outburst flood...

major alternatives to natural selection in the late 19th century were theistic evolution, neo-Lamarckism, orthogenesis, and saltationism. Alternatives supported...

that evolution due to natural selection is an ongoing process in the natural world. Natural selection is ubiquitous in all research pertaining to evolution...

integrated with evolution, orthogenesis and other alternatives to Darwinism were largely abandoned by biologists, but the notion that evolution represents...

Templeton A.R.; Johnson, J.S. (1982). "Life History Evolution Under Pleiotropy and K-selection in a Natural Population of Drosophila mercatorum". In Barker...

human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection. The...

runaway or runaway selection is a sexual selection mechanism proposed by the mathematical biologist Ronald Fisher in the early 20th century, to account for the...

Wallace's presentation of natural selection, coupled to the idea of evolution in Western thought, had gained acceptance due to the wealth of observational...

yet, hardly penetrated. These are the basic tenets of evolution by natural selection as defined by Darwin: More individuals are produced each generation...

process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly, it is a state reached by the population...

ago; The fine-tuned universe; Evolution and natural selection; No special supernatural intervention is involved once evolution got under way; Humans are a...

case of pluralism in biology. He suggests alternative mechanisms of evolution rather than natural selection. Wesson argues that reductionism is inadequate...

Recent human evolution refers to evolutionary adaptation, sexual and natural selection, and genetic drift within Homo sapiens populations, since their...

ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics. It also related the broad-scale macroevolution seen by palaeontologists to the small-scale...

de-evolution is not compatible with a proper understanding of evolution due to natural selection. In the 19th century, when belief in orthogenesis was widespread...

Evolution without Selection: Form and Function by Autoevolution is a 1988 book on evolution by cytogeneticist A. Lima-de-Faria. The book argues that only...

Animal coloration provided important early evidence for evolution by natural selection, at a time when little direct evidence was available. Three major...