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

Professor Stuart West, co-author and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Oxford, said: "By integrating evolutionary biology with behavioral data, we're able to make informed inferences about traits that don't fossilize -- like kissing. This lets us study social behavior in both modern and extinct species."

From Science Daily

The findings could help explain this long-standing enigma in evolutionary biology.

From Science Daily

"The bacteria and fungi and other organisms living in the soil can actually end up having important effects on things that matter, like carbon sequestration, nutrient movement and what we're particularly interested in -- the legacy effects on plants," said co-author Maggie Wagner, associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas.

From Science Daily

Lawren Sack, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA, said in an email that root depth varies widely depending on the species, with some extending more than 30 feet, but that most plants have the bulk of their roots in the top roughly foot and a half of soil or shallower.

From Los Angeles Times

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