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

"Each species that you and I can see and recognize as distinct may actually be hiding two different species, on average," said John Wiens, senior author of the paper and a professor in the University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Science.

From Science Daily

"If you compare those two mountain kingsnakes, they all look pretty much the same with their red, black and yellow-white stripes," said Yinpeng Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the paper's first author.

From Science Daily

They shared conference invites and articles on subjects Epstein took a liking to, such as mathematics, theoretical physics, psychology, evolutionary biology and brain science.

From Los Angeles Times

Using standard methods from evolutionary biology and computational biology, they reconstructed the protein produced by the original ancestral gene.

From Science Daily

Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.

From Science Daily