evolutionary biology

noun

1. the branches of biology that deal with the processes of change in populations of organisms, especially taxonomy, paleontology, ethology, population genetics, and ecology.

Example Sentences

I’m a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University.

From Freakonomics

Some previous efforts to pinpoint the next emergence have relied on the location of past outbreaks, which isn’t that useful, said Andrew Dobson, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University.

From Vox

The idea that music has played a role in social bonding is a passage to the subculture of music research in evolutionary biology that lies beneath the world of notes.

From Nautilus

This vexes Meiburg, whose subsequent quest for answers produces a lively mashup of evolutionary biology, travelogue, and biography, ushering us on an eye-opening romp through time and space.

From Outside Online

There’s an open question in evolutionary biology, whether the rate of adaptation is accelerated during a speciation event—when populations become separate species—or if it’s a more gradual process.

From Singularity Hub 

For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.

From The Daily Beast

In The Greatest Show on Earth, Dawkins returns to evolutionary biology.

From The Daily Beast