evolutionist
Natural selection believer
An evolutionist is someone who accepts or advocates the theory of biological evolution—that species change over time through natural selection and other mechanisms.
The term appears most often in debates between evolution and creationism, where it's used by critics to frame acceptance of mainstream science as an ideological position: The evolutionists dismiss any alternative explanation.
Permanent DNA alteration
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- fitnessGood physical shape
- variationChange from a norm
speciation · recombination · heritability · divergence · convergence · coevolution · gradualism · microevolution
British naturalist, species theorist
- WallaceAnglo-Norman given name
- DawkinsBritish evolutionary biologist
- DarwinismNatural selection theory
- neo-DarwinismEvolution merged with genetics
Huxley · Lamarck · Beagle · Galápagos · creationist
Predecessor in lineage
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- homologyStructural similarity through descent
- vestigialReduced, without current function
paleontology · stratigraphy · Cambrian · Precambrian · cladistics · primordial · biogenesis · biogeography
Organism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- chromosomeDNA strand carrying genes
- genomeOrganism's total hereditary material
DNA · heredity · inheritance · genomics · epigenetics · Mendelian · polymorphism · dominant
mutation
Permanent DNA alteration
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- fitnessGood physical shape
variation · speciation · recombination · heritability · divergence · convergence · coevolution · gradualism · microevolution · macroevolution
Darwin
British naturalist, species theorist
- WallaceAnglo-Norman given name
- DawkinsBritish evolutionary biologist
- DarwinismNatural selection theory
Huxley · Lamarck · neo-Darwinism · Beagle · Galápagos · creationist
ancestor
Predecessor in lineage
- phylogenyEvolutionary relationships among organisms
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- homologyStructural similarity through descent
vestigial · paleontology · stratigraphy · Cambrian · Precambrian · cladistics · primordial · biogenesis · biogeography
genotype
Organism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- chromosomeDNA strand carrying genes
genome · DNA · heredity · inheritance · genomics · epigenetics · Mendelian · polymorphism · dominant · recessive
- freethinkersfreethinker, freethinkers, secularists, rationalist, rationalists