evolutionary biology

noun

: a discipline of biology concerned with the processes and patterns of biological evolution especially in relation to the diversity of organisms and how they change over time

Speciation still remains one of the biggest mysteries in evolutionary biology.

—Bob Holmes

see evolutionary developmental biology

evolutionary biologist noun

Examples of evolutionary biology in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Science & Religion Thinking The evolution of religion: Why belief systems are literally false and metaphorically true Professor Bret Weinstein has spent two decades advancing the field of evolutionary biology with a focus on adaptive trade-offs. —Big Think, 24 June 2024

People tend to think of evolutionary biology as a discipline focused on events that happened slowly and in the distant past. —Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024

Review the sources used below for this article: Master’s student in evolutionary biology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. —Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2024

In Bisbee, Arizona, one scientist who has spent his career studying evolutionary biology and ecology is tracking a 3-million-year-old lizard population dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded. —Grace Manthey, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above