Introduction

• Main Author: OpenStax College
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Wilhelm Weinberg; vicariance; vestigial structure; variation; Theodosius Dobzhansky; sympatric speciation; speciation; sexual selection; sexual reproduction; Science; Rosemary Grant; reproductive isolation; Ptarmigan; Proteacea; prezygotic mechanism; post-zygotic mechanism; population genetics; polyploidy; phenotype; Pew Research; Peter Grant; Peppered Moth; Pangaea; On the Origin of Species; Northern Spotted Owl; natural selection; mutation; molecular biology; modern synthesis; migration; microevolution; Mexican Spotted Owl; macroevolution; Laurasia; Lake Victoria; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; James Hutton; inheritance of acquired characteristics; incipient speciation; hypothesis; Huntington's disease; homologous structure; HMS Beagle; Hawaiian honeycreeper bird; Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium; Gregor Mendel; Gondwana; Godfrey Hardy; Georges-Louis Leclerc; Comte de Buffon; geographic separation; genetic variation; genetic drift; gene pool; gene flow; Galapagos Islands; Galapagos Finch; founder effect; fossil record; fossil; First Amendment; Fanconi anemia (FA); Erasmus Darwin; endemic species; embryology; divergent evolution; dispersal; descendant species; Daphne Major; convergent evolution; common ancestor; cichlid; Charles Lyell; Charles Darwin; bottleneck effect; biogeography; autopolyploidy; Arctic Fox; apple maggot fly; ancestral species; anatomy; analogous structure; American Society for the Advancement of; alloploidy; allopatric speciation; allele frequency; allele; Alfred Russell Wallace; Afrikaner; adaptive radiation; adaptation; ABO blood type; Arctic; Buffon; Finch; Galapagos; Lamarck; Pew
• Online Access: http://cnx.org/content/m45486/1.2