University of California, Berkeley resource on understanding evolution defines a lineage as "A continuous line of descent; a series of organisms, populations...

ancestor Lineage (evolution), a temporal sequence of individuals, populations or species which represents a continuous line of descent Lineage (genetic)...

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history...

hybridization between substantially diverged lineages is the rule, not the exception, in human evolution. Furthermore, it is argued that hybridization...

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...

new species (speciation), changes within lineages (anagenesis), and loss of species (extinction). "Evolution" is also another name for evolutionary biology...

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...

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...

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...

Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA's (Last UCA) Lineage", Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods, Cham: Springer International...

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...

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...

Common Ancestor (FUCA) as the Earliest Ancestor of LUCA's (Last UCA) Lineage", Evolution, Origin of Life, Concepts and Methods, Cham: Springer International...

breeding, a technique in animal and plant agriculture and horticulture Lineage (evolution), a sequence of species that form a line of descent Long interspersed...

earliest and most primitive branch of the Canidae was the Hesperocyoninae lineage, which included the coyote-sized Mesocyon of the Oligocene (38–24 Mya)...

no evidence for rapid bursts of lineage diversification at the origin of the Mustelidae, and further analyses of lineage diversification rates using molecular...

Reticulate evolution, or network evolution is the origination of a lineage through the partial merging of two ancestor lineages, leading to relationships...

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...

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...

Begun has theorised that early primates flourished in Eurasia and that a lineage leading to the African apes and humans, including Dryopithecus, migrated...

"Whole-mtDNA genome sequence analysis of ancient African lineages". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24 (3): 757–768. doi:10.1093/molbev/msl209. PMID 17194802...

the monotreme lineage. Additional reconstruction through shared genes in sex chromosomes supports this hypothesis of independent evolution. This feature...

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

neutral theory of molecular evolution – population genetics – Hardy–Weinberg principle Speciation Species Phylogeny Lineage (evolution) – evolutionary tree –...

Lineage selection occurs when the frequency of one biological lineage changes relative to another lineage. Lineage selection is a generalization of individual...

Convergent evolution—the repeated evolution of similar traits in multiple lineages which all ancestrally lack the trait—is rife in nature, as illustrated...

"Population history in social spiders repeated: Colony structure and lineage evolution in stegodyphus mimosarum (eresidae)". Molecular Ecology. 18 (13):...

ago and is divided into eight major phylogenetic lineages. The Felis lineage in particular is the lineage that the domestic cat is a member of. Several investigations...

of an evolutionary tree. Character evolution usually refers to single changes within a lineage that make this lineage unique from others. These changes...

complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal. Much of this evolution took place in North America, where horses...