Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book...

has widened to encompass the genetic architecture of adaptation, molecular evolution, and the different forces that contribute to evolution, such as sexual...

course on the creation/evolution controversy, and apparently as students learn more about biology, they find objections to evolution less convincing, suggesting...

evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar...

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

transfer during early evolution has led to questions about the monophyly (single ancestry) of life. 6,331 groups of genes common to all living animals have...

Earth has a common ancestor has met with objections from some religious groups. Their objections are in contrast to the level of support for the theory by...

predators), the evolution of a key innovation or dispersal to a new environment. Any one of these ecological opportunities has the potential to result in an...

Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...

support for evolution – Variation in support for the theory of evolution Objections to evolution – Arguments that have been made against evolution Social effects...

survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in the heritable traits characteristic...

classification of living things with regard to their natural relationships and the study of variation and the evolution of taxa". In 1970, Michener et al. defined...

Status as a theory (in Objections to evolution) Theory vs. Fact (in Creation–evolution controversy) Gould, Stephen Jay (1981) "Evolution as Fact and Theory"...

Darwinism Faith and rationality Galápagos Islands Genetic drift Objections to evolution Timeline of evolutionary history of life The Voyage of the Beagle...

as "literal history" and first rejected what he termed "molecules-to-man evolution" during high school. As a young Earth creationist and biblical inerrantist...

explained by natural selection. Adaptation is related to biological fitness, which governs the rate of evolution as measured by change in allele frequencies. Often...

gene-centered view of evolution, gene's eye view, gene selection theory, or selfish gene theory holds that adaptive evolution occurs through the differential...

Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading to speciation...

observing microevolution in the wild. Typically, observable instances of evolution are examples of microevolution; for example, bacterial strains that have...

in their religions and who raise various objections to evolution. As had been demonstrated by responses to the publication of Vestiges of the Natural...

fitness more common over time, resulting in Darwinian evolution. The term "Darwinian fitness" can be used to make clear the distinction with physical fitness...

a century later, evolutionary biologists still use tree diagrams to depict evolution because such diagrams effectively convey the concept that speciation...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...

macroevolution is the evolution of taxa above the species level (genera, families, orders, etc.). Macroevolution is often thought to require the evolution of completely...

Evolution of cells refers to the evolutionary origin and subsequent evolutionary development of cells. Cells first emerged at least 3.8 billion years ago...

Mosaic evolution (or modular evolution) is the concept, mainly from palaeontology, that evolutionary change takes place in some body parts or systems...

(see mimicry), and human hemoglobin and blood types. According to the theory of evolution, polymorphism results from evolutionary processes, as does any...

monkey theorem Irreducible complexity Law of truly large numbers Objections to evolution Watchmaker analogy Weasel program Hoyle, Fred (1984). The Intelligent...

level of support for evolution among scientists, the public, and other groups is a topic that frequently arises in the creation–evolution controversy, and...

on neutral mutations. In the 1990s, constructive neutral evolution was proposed which seeks to explain how complex systems emerge through neutral transitions...