• University of California, Berkeley resource on understanding evolution defines a lineage as "A continuous line of descent; a series of organisms, populations...
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  • ancestor Lineage (evolution), a temporal sequence of individuals, populations or species which represents a continuous line of descent Lineage (genetic)...
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    The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history...
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    hybridization between substantially diverged lineages is the rule, not the exception, in human evolution. Furthermore, it is argued that hybridization...
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    Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...
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    new species (speciation), changes within lineages (anagenesis), and loss of species (extinction). "Evolution" is also another name for evolutionary biology...
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  • Anagenesis (redirect from Gradual evolution)
    as different lineages branch off and cease to interbreed, a core group may continue to be defined as the original species. The evolution of this group...
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  • relationship of chimpanzees and humans. In human evolution, incomplete lineage sorting is used to diagram hominin lineages that may have failed to sort out at the...
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    A ghost lineage is a hypothesized ancestor in a species lineage that has left no fossil evidence, but can still be inferred to exist or have existed because...
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  • contingency describes how the outcome of evolution may be affected by the history of a particular lineage. Evolution is a historical process, and the outcomes...
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  • breeding, a technique in animal and plant agriculture and horticulture Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent Long interspersed...
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  • Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA's (Last UCA) Lineage", Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods, Cham: Springer International...
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  • may have diverged in evolution from a common ancestor of bacteria and eukaryotes or from an early evolved member of either lineage. Most of the phage genes...
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    Reticulate evolution, or network evolution is the origination of a lineage through the partial merging of two ancestor lineages, leading to relationships...
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  • First universal common ancestor (category Events in biological evolution)
    Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA's (Last UCA) Lineage", Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods, Cham: Springer International...
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    of an evolutionary tree. Character evolution usually refers to single changes within a lineage that make this lineage unique from others. These changes...
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    definition was proposed in 2017, where a 'living fossil' lineage has a slow rate of evolution and occurs close to the middle of morphological variation...
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  • PMC 3688966. PMID 23825582. Nunney, Leonard (1999-03-07). "Lineage selection and the evolution of multistage carcinogenesis". Proceedings of the Royal Society...
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    closely related wolf populations – which was distinct from the modern wolf lineage. The dog's similarity to the grey wolf is the result of substantial dog-into-wolf...
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    ago and is divided into eight major phylogenetic lineages. The Felis lineage in particular is the lineage to which the domestic cat belongs.[page needed]...
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    "Population history in social spiders repeated: Colony structure and lineage evolution in stegodyphus mimosarum (eresidae)". Molecular Ecology. 18 (13):...
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    mid-Triassic, there were many synapsid species that looked like mammals. The lineage leading to today's mammals split up in the Jurassic; synapsids from this...
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    "Whole-mtDNA genome sequence analysis of ancient African lineages". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24 (3): 757–768. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl209. PMID 17194802...
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    Canidae (redirect from Evolution of canids)
    earliest and most primitive branch of the Canidae was the Hesperocyoninae lineage, which included the coyote-sized Mesocyon of the Oligocene (38–24 Mya)...
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    no evidence for rapid bursts of lineage diversification at the origin of the Mustelidae, and further analyses of lineage diversification rates using molecular...
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    Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...
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    the monotreme lineage. Additional reconstruction through shared genes in sex chromosomes supports this hypothesis of independent evolution. This feature...
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    neutral theory of molecular evolution – population genetics – Hardy–Weinberg principle Speciation Species Phylogeny Lineage (evolution) – evolutionary tree –...
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    Begun has theorised that early primates flourished in Eurasia and that a lineage leading to the African apes and humans, including Dryopithecus, migrated...
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  • Convergent evolution—the repeated evolution of similar traits in multiple lineages which all ancestrally lack the trait—is rife in nature, as illustrated...
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