Concept information
Preferred term
evolution
Definition
- Evolution is a theory of the origin and transformation of life forms over time. Plants and animals exist on earth in an enormous abundance of forms or species. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Evolution]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- A. I. Oparin
- Ales Hrdlicka
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- ape biogeography
- aquatic ape hypothesis
- arboreal hypothesis
- arc of evolution
- australopithecines
- biological adaptation
- biological anthropology
- biological anthropology and neo-Darwinism
- catastrophism
- Charles Darwin
- cladistics
- Clarence Darrow
- C. Owen Lovejoy
- creationism versus geology
- Dale Allen Russell
- Daniel C. Dennett
- Darwin and Germany
- Darwin and India
- Darwin and Italy
- darwinism versus lamarckism
- Davidson Black
- Desmond Morris
- dinosaurian hominid
- disbelief in evolution
- Donald C. Johanson
- Dropithecus
- dynamic integrity
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- Elaine Morgan
- Ernst Haeckel
- Eugene Dubois
- evolutionary anthropology
- evolutionary epistemology
- evolutionary ethics
- evolutionary ontology
- evolution education controversy
- evolution of primate brain
- extinction
- F. Clark Howell
- fossil record
- fossils
- Franz Weidenrich
- Galapagos Islands
- gigantopithecus
- Herbert Spencer
- hominid taxonomy
- hominoids
- Homo antecessor
- homo erectus
- Homo ergaster
- homo habilis
- homo sapiens
- human canopy evolution
- human evolution
- human genetics
- humans and dinosaurs
- Ian Tattersall
- India and evolution
- issues in hominization
- Jared Diamond
- Jeffrey H. Schwartz
- John Scopes
- J. R. Napier
- Kenyanthropus platyops
- Kenyapithecus wickeri
- Leslie A. White
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- Louis S. B. Leakey
- lucy reconstruction models
- Marvin Harris
- Mary D. Leakey
- mass extinctions
- Meave Epps Leakey
- Meganthropus
- models of evolution
- modern Darwinism
- molecular evolution
- monogenesis versus polygenesis
- morphology versus molecules in evolution
- Narmada Man
- natural selection
- neandertal evidence
- Neandertals
- neo-Darwinism
- non-darwinian evolutionary mechanisms
- Olduvai Gorge
- orangutan-human evolution
- Oreopithecus
- organic evolution
- origin of life
- origin of neo-Darwinism
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- primate extinction
- primate morphology and evolution
- Raymond A. Dart
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard E. F. Leakey
- Robert Ardrey
- russia and evolution
- sahelanthropus tchadensis
- Scopes Trial
- State Darwin Museum, Moscow
- theories
- Timothy White
- uniformitarianism
- Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky
- zinjanthropus boisei
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/evolution
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