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Evolutionary Processes

Evolutionary processes are the mechanisms that change the genetic composition of populations across generations and generate the diversity and adaptation observed among organisms. The core processes are mutation, which introduces new genetic variation; natural selection, which differentially propagates heritable var…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 11 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 58× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2689-4602 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Evolutionary processes are the mechanisms that change the genetic composition of populations across generations and generate the diversity and adaptation observed among organisms. The core processes are mutation, which introduces new genetic variation; natural selection, which differentially propagates heritable variants according to their effect on survival and reproduction; genetic drift, the random change in allele frequencies that is most pronounced in small populations; gene flow, the movement of alleles between populations; and recombination, which reshuffles existing variation. Together these forces shape adaptation, the maintenance of variation, and, over longer timescales, speciation and lineage divergence. Their study draws on population and quantitative genetics, mathematical modeling of mutational and selective dynamics, phylogenetics, and the analysis of conserved genes and protein domains across taxa. Long-standing debates concern the relative weight of selection versus neutral processes and the continuing centrality of natural selection in evolutionary theory. Work in this area examines mathematical and genetic-drift-based modeling of mutation and allele frequency change, the role of regulatory and developmental genes such as Hox genes in body-plan evolution, models of speciation, the conservation and architecture of protein-coding genes across the animal kingdom, and broader reflections on Darwinian theory and the evolving concept of evolution itself.

Research published in this journal

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

2019

Ontogenes and the Problem of Speciation

F Chadov BorisCorresponding author
Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russian Federation.
Evolutionary Science Cited by 15 doi:10.14302/issn.2689-4602.jes-18-2431
2018

Evolution of the Concept of Evolution

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

How this research is being cited

The 11 articles above have been cited 58 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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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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