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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of populations across successive generations, the unifying principle of the biological sciences. It proceeds through mechanisms including natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and recombination, which alter allele frequencies and, over time, g…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 49× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2689-4602 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of populations across successive generations, the unifying principle of the biological sciences. It proceeds through mechanisms including natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and recombination, which alter allele frequencies and, over time, generate adaptation, divergence, and the origin of new species. Evidence spans the fossil record, comparative anatomy, molecular sequence data, and observed change in living populations, and evolutionary thinking extends from organismal diversification to the molecular evolution of genes and pathogens. The peer-reviewed research collected here engages these themes through reassessments of the Darwinian project and the concept of evolution, analyses of speciation via ontogenetic models in Drosophila, and treatments of structural complexity and ratchet processes in evolutionary dynamics. Molecular and genetic contributions examine the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the evolutionary conservation of Hox genes in vertebrate brain development, allele-based inference on evolution and extinction through genetic drift, and the relationship between genomic structure and brain evolution. Broader work situates biological evolution within general theories of change across the universe and the history of scientific production in applied fields. Methodologically, the literature draws on conceptual and theoretical analysis, molecular and population genetics, and sequence study, illustrating how evolution connects heritable variation, adaptation, and the diversification of life from molecular to organismal scales.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Evolution of the Concept of Evolution

Mikhailovsky GeorgeCorresponding author
Global Mind Share, Norfolk, VA, United States
Exact topic Evolutionary Science doi:10.14302/issn.2689-4602.jes-18-2229

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 49 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Evolution, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Evolutionary Science (ISSN 2689-4602).

Journal editorial board
Maria Luisa Chiusano · Italy Adina-Elena Segneanu · Romania George Mikhailovsky · United States

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