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''']''' is the change in heritable traits of biological organisms over successive generations due to natural selection and other mechanisms. ''']''', in the context of biological descent with modification, is the change in heritable traits of biological organisms over successive generations due to natural selection and other mechanisms.


'''Evolution''' may also refer to: '''Evolution''' may also refer to:

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See also: Outline of evolution

Evolution, in the context of biological descent with modification, is the change in heritable traits of biological organisms over successive generations due to natural selection and other mechanisms.

Evolution may also refer to:

  • Evolution (term), accumulation of change over time, or other technical usage of the term in biology as well as in other disciplines

Biological evolution

  • Evolutionary biology, the subfield of biology concerned with study of evolutionary processes that produced diversity of life on Earth
  • Modern evolutionary synthesis, the 20th century synthesis of ideas from various fields of biology (particularly genetics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology, and paleontology) to provide the widely accepted account of evolution

Non-biological evolution

  • Evolutionary track, the path a star follows across an Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of brightness vs temperature

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