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    predictable environments. Biogeography is an integrative field of inquiry that unites concepts and information from ecology, evolutionary biology, taxonomy,...
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  • the development of the theory and practice of systematic and evolutionary biogeography. SEBA was established in 2006. It is a non-profit organization...
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    is followed here. The evolutionary history of penguins is well-researched and represents a showcase of evolutionary biogeography. Although penguin bones...
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    theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts and creates through laws of nature...
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  • Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification...
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    such as sexual selection, genetic drift, and biogeography. Moreover, the newer field of evolutionary developmental biology ("evo-devo") investigates...
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  • Evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure is exerted by factors that reduce or increase reproductive success in a portion of a population...
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    Germany. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center – Scientific research center in Durham, North Carolina Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeography Association –...
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  • A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa...
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    In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial...
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    of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic...
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    PMID 23530223. Lomolino, M; Riddle, B; Whittaker, R; Brown, J (2010). Biogeography, Fourth Edition. Sinauer Associates. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-87893-494-2....
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    Deméré, T. A.; Berta, A.; Adam, P. J. (2003). "Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 279:...
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    establishment of evolutionary biology, studies of mutation and genetic diversity in natural populations, combined with biogeography and systematics, led...
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  • Evolutionary ethics is a field of inquiry that explores how evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality. The range of issues...
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  • Evolutionary anthropology, the interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behaviour and of the relation between hominids and...
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    experimentally (outside of evolutionary computation), most current work has focused on the persistence of sexual reproduction over evolutionary time. The maintenance...
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    (1930–1972) is best known in the field of Evolutionary Ecology for his work The Theory of Island Biogeography, in which he and his co-author propose "that...
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    spread from evolutionary biology to other disciplines, including evolutionary computation, quantum Darwinism, evolutionary economics, evolutionary epistemology...
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  • it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly,...
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    Biogeographic realm (category Biogeography)
    Global Biogeography. Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy n. 14. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 9780444825605. Morrone, J.J. (2009). Evolutionary biogeography...
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    Zoogeography (category Biogeography)
    Zoogeography is the branch of the science of biogeography that is concerned with geographic distribution (present and past) of animal species. As a multifaceted...
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  • The concept of the three great evolutionary faunas of marine animals from the Cambrian to the present (that is, the entire Phanerozoic) was introduced...
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  • Evolutionary linguistics or Darwinian linguistics is a sociobiological approach to the study of language. Evolutionary linguists consider linguistics as...
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  • societies, sociobiology is closely allied to evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and sociology. Sociobiology investigates...
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  • 2004). "Patterns of distribution in the Ediacaran biotas: facies versus biogeography and evolution". Paleobiology. 30 (2): 203–221. doi:10...
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    term "divergent evolution", with its use becoming widespread in modern evolutionary literature. Examples of divergence in nature are the adaptive radiation...
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  • The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) consists of a set of theoretical concepts argued to be more comprehensive than the earlier modern synthesis of...
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  • evidence. They generalized this observation to assert that the rate of evolutionary change of any specified protein was approximately constant over time...
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  • of species. As part of historical biogeography, researchers had been evaluating the geographical and evolutionary relationships of organisms years before...
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