evolutionary biology

American  

noun

1. the branches of biology that deal with the processes of change in populations of organisms, especially taxonomy, paleontology, ethology, population genetics, and ecology.

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Example Sentences

Koparde says that the evolutionary biology of dragonflies and damselflies in the Western Ghats is particularly interesting because of the manner in which the region was formed.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

"This insight ties evolutionary biology directly to Earth's geochemical history. The archaeal ancestor of eukaryotes began evolving complex features roughly a billion years before oxygen became abundant, in oceans that were entirely anoxic."

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2025

Much subsequent sociology has run around this Weberian circuit, powered by new techniques such as quantitative modeling and evolutionary biology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Of Yemeni and Syrian heritage, Al-Shamahi grew up in Birmingham, England; earned degrees in evolutionary biology and taxonomy and biodiversity from Imperial College London and was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

Again, physicists tend to look down on evolutionary biology and history, because those fields appear to fail this test.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond