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'''Evolutionary biology''' is a subfield of ] concerned with the origin and descent of ], as well as their change over time. ''See:'' ''']'''.
'''Evolutionary biology''' is a subfield of ] concerned with the origin and descent of ], as well as their change over time. ''See:'' ''']'''.
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Evolutionary biology is a kind of meta field because it includes scientists from many traditional ]-oriented disciplines. For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular ]s such as ], ], or ] but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution. It also generally includes ] who use ]s to answer questions about the mode and tempo of evolution, as well as theoreticians in areas such as ] and evolutionary theory. In the ] ] made a re-entry into evolutionary biology from its initial exclusion from the modern synthesis through the study of ].
Evolutionary biology is a kind of meta field because it includes scientists from many traditional ]-oriented disciplines. For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular ]s such as ], ], or ] but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution. It also generally includes ] who use ]s to answer questions about the mode and tempo of evolution, as well as theoreticians in areas such as ] and evolutionary theory. In the ] ] made a re-entry into evolutionary biology from its initial exclusion from the modern synthesis through the study of ].
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Evolutionary biology is a subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species, as well as their change over time. See:Evolution.
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Evolutionary biology is a kind of meta field because it includes scientists from many traditional taxonomically-oriented disciplines. For example, it generally includes scientists who may have a specialist training in particular organisms such as mammalogy, ornithology, or herpetology but use those organisms as systems to answer general questions in evolution. It also generally includes paleontogists who use fossils to answer questions about the mode and tempo of evolution, as well as theoreticians in areas such as population genetics and evolutionary theory. In the 1990sdevelopmental biology made a re-entry into evolutionary biology from its initial exclusion from the modern synthesis through the study of evolutionary developmental biology.
History
Evolutionary biology as an academic discipline in its own right emerged as a result of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s. It was not until the 1970s and 1980s, however, that a significant number of universities had departments that specifically included the term evolutionary biology in their titles. In the United States, as a result of the rapid growth of molecular and cell biology, many universities have split (or aggregated) their biology departments into molecular and cell biology-style departments and ecology and evolutionary biology-style departments (which often have subsumed older departments in paleontology, zoology and the like).
References
Douglas J. Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates, 3rd edition (1998) ISBN 0878931899 (textbook)
