Research field
Evolutionary Biology
Evolutionary biology studies the processes that have shaped the diversity of life over billions of years, integrating paleontology, genetics, ecology, and developmental biology. Ancient DNA technology now recovers genome sequences from specimens tens of thousands of years old, revealing population migrations, admixture with archaic hominins, and the genetic basis of adaptation to new environments. Comparative genomics identifies conserved regulatory elements and tracks how gene content changes across lineages. Evo-devo research asks how changes in developmental gene networks generate novel morphologies during evolution. The field has direct applications in antibiotic resistance, pandemic preparedness, and conservation genetics.
Top institutions
University of California Berkeley
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Harvard University
University of Edinburgh
Uppsala University
Subfields
Key technologies
Ancient DNA Sequencing
Whole-Genome Resequencing
Bayesian Phylogenetics
Comparative Genomics
CRISPR Functional Testing
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