evolution
Evolution is the process of gradual change in organisms over successive generations, resulting in the diversity of life we observe today.
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- adaptation
- appeals to scientific consensus
- biogeography
- convergent evolution
- divergent evolution
- ecological niche
- extinction
- fossil record
- genetic drift
- genetic recombination
- genetic variation
- homologous structures
- human nature
- lamarckism
- macroevolution
- microevolution
- mutation
- natural selection
- phylogenetics
- progressivism in biology
- reproductive success
- secular humanism
- selective pressure
- speciation
- transformism
- vestigial organs