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Michael Specter, in his piece on the role of viruses in human evolution, refers to an essay that I published called "Can Viruses Make Us Human?" ("Darwin's Surprise," December 3rd).
Formally, evolution refers to any change in the distribution of alleles within a population over time.
Finally, the students believed that biological evolution refers to changes in individuals, not populations.
For the purpose of this work, evolution refers to the adaptation of the SPL as a result of changing requirements.
Compensatory evolution refers to the evolution through the fixation of compensatory mutations that restore their fitness decline with one another.
In the most general sense, convergent evolution refers to the independent and repeated emergence of a certain adaptive trait in distantly related lineages.
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Because of this complexity, biologists rarely make reference to "the theory of evolution," referring instead simply to "evolution" (i.e., the fact of descent with modification) or "evolutionary theory" (i.e., the increasingly sophisticated body of explanations for the fact of evolution).
They proceeded less from the discipline of historiography than from the presuppositions of social evolution, referred to above.
Correction: August 27 , 2002 Tuesday An article on Friday about a debate in Cobb County, Ga., on the teaching of evolution referred incompletely to action by the school board on Thursday.
Correction: August 24 , 2002 Saturday An article yesterday about a debate in Cobb County, Ga., on the teaching of evolution referred incompletely to action by the school board on Thursday.
It is likely DWM that most frequently comes to mind when most people hear the word "evolution" (e.g., most modern polls on "evolution" refer to DWM, rather than natural selection, and most images of "evolution" in popular culture [such as cartoons] are to DWM rather than evolutionary mechanisms; e.g., Browne 2001; Clark 2009).
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