Biological Evolution

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The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.

Descriptor ID	D005075
MeSH Number(s)	G05.045 G16.075
Concept/Terms	Biological Evolution Biological Evolution Evolution, Biological

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Biological Sciences [G]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
Biological Evolution [G05.045]
Biological Phenomena [G16]
Biological Evolution [G16.075]

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Bar chart showing 100 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	0	1	1
2000	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2002	1	2	3
2003	1	0	1
2004	2	3	5
2005	1	0	1
2007	4	1	5
2008	0	1	1
2009	4	1	5
2011	2	2	4
2012	1	4	5
2013	3	4	7
2014	5	3	8
2015	1	5	6
2016	4	3	7
2017	1	2	3
2018	2	3	5
2019	1	0	1
2020	0	6	6
2021	3	3	6
2022	2	3	5
2023	1	4	5
2024	2	1	3
2025	3	0	3
2026	1	0	1

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Bourgikos E, Dellicour S, Lemey P, Feriancek NM, Bransfield AB, Breban MI, Misencik MJ, Petruff TA, Shepard JJ, Andreadis TG, Anderson JF, Ngo KA, Maffei JG, Dupuis AP, Rich SM, Xu G, Sakolsky G, Price KJ, Metzger ML, Suchard MA, Lopes R, G?mbaro F, Carlson CJ, Baele G, Ciota AT, Vogels CBF, Hill V, Armstrong PM, Grubaugh ND. Evolutionary history of Jamestown Canyon virus reveals complex multi-vector ecology. Curr Biol. 2026 May 04; 36(9):2343-2356.e7.

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Lord KA, Larson G, Allaby RG, Karlsson EK. A universally applicable definition for domestication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jun 03; 122(22):e2413207122.

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Cacchione S, Cenci G, Dion-C?t? AM, Barbash DA, Raffa GD. Maintaining Telomeres without Telomerase in Drosophila: Novel Mechanisms and Rapid Evolution to Save a Genus. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2025 03 03; 17(3).

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Sievert LL. Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2025 02; 186(2):e70012.

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Sievert LL. Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2024 12; 186 Suppl 78:e25067.

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Lord KA, Chen FL, Karlsson EK. An Evolutionary Perspective on Dog Behavioral Genetics. Annu Rev Anim Biosci. 2025 02; 13(1):167-188.

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Kwiatkowski ER, Emery P. Cnidarians are CLOCKing in. Elife. 2024 May 08; 13.

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Evans JA, Schwartz WJ. On the origin and evolution of the dual oscillator model underlying the photoperiodic clockwork in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2024 Jul; 210(4):503-511.

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Foley NM, Mason VC, Harris AJ, Bredemeyer KR, Damas J, Lewin HA, Eizirik E, Gatesy J, Karlsson EK, Lindblad-Toh K, Springer MS, Murphy WJ. A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution. Science. 2023 04 28; 380(6643):eabl8189.

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Sullivan PF, Meadows JRS, Gazal S, Phan BN, Li X, Genereux DP, Dong MX, Bianchi M, Andrews G, Sakthikumar S, Nordin J, Roy A, Christmas MJ, Marinescu VD, Wang C, Wallerman O, Xue J, Yao S, Sun Q, Szatkiewicz J, Wen J, Huckins LM, Lawler A, Keough KC, Zheng Z, Zeng J, Wray NR, Li Y, Johnson J, Chen J, Paten B, Reilly SK, Hughes GM, Weng Z, Pollard KS, Pfenning AR, Forsberg-Nilsson K, Karlsson EK, Lindblad-Toh K. Leveraging base-pair mammalian constraint to understand genetic variation and human disease. Science. 2023 04 28; 380(6643):eabn2937.

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