Evolution (disambiguation)

See also: Outline of evolution

Evolution, in the context of biological descent with modification, is the change in heritable traits of biological organisms over successive generations due to natural selection and other mechanisms.

Evolution may also refer to:

• Evolution (term), accumulation of change over time, or other technical usage of the term in biology as well as in other disciplines

Biological evolution

• Evolutionary biology, the subfield of biology concerned with study of evolutionary processes that produced diversity of life on Earth
• Modern evolutionary synthesis, the 20th century synthesis of ideas from various fields of biology (particularly genetics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology, and paleontology) to provide the widely accepted account of evolution

Non-biological evolution

• Beach evolution
• Chemical evolution, disambiguation list of types of chemical evolution
  • Abiogenesis, transition from nonliving elements to living systems
  • Stellar nucleosynthesis, creation of chemical elements by stellar thermonuclear fusion or supernovae, as stars evolve (age)
  • Gas evolution reaction, process of gas bubbling out from solution
  • Oxygen evolution, process of generating molecular oxygen through chemical reaction
  • Cosmochemistry (or Astrochemistry), study of chemical composition and origin of matter in universe, including complex organics
• Differential evolution, a method of mathematical optimization of multidimensional functions
• Directed evolution, a method used in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection
• Ecological-evolutionary theory
• Evolution of an idea
• Evolution of language

• Evolutionary linguistics
• Grammatical evolution
• Language change

• Evolutionary art
• Evolutionary computation, subfield of artificial intelligence that uses optimization techniques inspired by biological evolution
• Evolutionary economics
• Evolutionary epistemology
• Evolutionary music
• Evolutionary robotics

• Evolutionary developmental robotics

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Landscape evolution model
• Multilineal evolution
• Pascendi dominici gregis, or evolution of dogma, the idea that certain fundamental Catholic dogmas can change with time
• Postbiological evolution
• Sociocultural evolution, term for theories describing how cultures and societies have developed over time
• Software evolution
• Spiritual evolution
• Stellar evolution, the development of stars

• Evolutionary track, the path a star follows across an Hertzsprung–Russell diagram of brightness vs temperature

• Technological evolution
• Time evolution, change of state brought about by the passage of time
• Universal evolution, views on cosmological development

Other uses

Companies

• Evolution Group, a British financial services business
• Evolutions Television, a British television post-production company

Film and television

• Dragonball Evolution, a 2009 film by James Wong
• Evolution (1971 film), an animated short by Michael Mills
• Evolution (film), a 2001 film by Ivan Reitman
• Underworld: Evolution, a 2006 film
• "Evolution" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1989 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "Evolution" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Evolution (TV series), a documentary television series
• X-Men: Evolution, an American television series

Games

• CycloDS Evolution, a Nintendo DS hardware for home brew games
• Evolution (party game)
• Evolution Championship Series, a yearly fighting game tournament
• Evolution Studios, a British video game developer
• Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life a strategy game edited by Discovery Channel
• Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, a 1999 video game
• Pokémon evolution, a sudden change in form in the Pokémon universe
• Turok: Evolution, a 2002 first-person shooter video game developed and published by Acclaim Entertainment
• Tron: Evolution, a 2010 action-adventure video game

Literature

• Creative Evolution, a 1907 book by Henri Bergson
• Evolution (Peel novel), a 1994 Doctor Who novel
• Evolution (journal), a bimonthly scientific journal
• Evolution (Baxter novel), a 2003 science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis by Julian Huxley
• Evolution: The Story of Life by Douglas Palmer

Music

Albums

• Evolution (Oleta Adams album), 1993
• Evolution (Blood on the Dance Floor album), 2012
• Evolution (Boyz II Men album), 1997
• Evolution (Teddy Charles album), 1955
• Evolution (Dennis Coffey album)
• Evolution (Decoded Feedback album)
• Evolution (Edge of Sanity album), 1999
• Evolution (The Hollies album), 1967
• Evolution (JLS album)
• Evolution (Journey album), 1979
• Evolution (Tony MacAlpine album), 1995
• Evolution (Martina McBride album)
• Evolution (Malo album), 1973
• Evolution (Grachan Moncur III album), 1963
• Evolution (Nektar album), 2004
• Evolution, a television news music package by Stephen Arnold Music
• Evolution (Masami Okui album), 2006
• Evolution (Slum Village album), 2013
• Evolution (Twins album), 2003
• Evolution (Paul van Dyk album), 2012
• Evolution (Viper album), 1992, or the title song
• Evolution, a 2012 album by Pamela Williams
• Evolution (Infinite EP)
• Evolution (Open Hand EP), 2000
• Evolution (Subhumans EP)
• Evolution: The Hits'', a compilation album by Dead or Alive
• Ciara: The Evolution, 2006

Songs

• "Evolution", a song by Cat Power from the album You Are Free
• "Evolution", a song by State Radio from the album Let It Go
• "Evolution" (Korn song), 2007
• "Evolution" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2001
• "Evolution (The Grand Design)", a song by Symphony X from their 2000 album V: The New Mythology Suite
• "Evolution", a song by Roy Ayers from Mystic Voyage'

Technology

• Beagle 2: Evolution, the proposed successor to the Beagle 2 Mars lander
• DTA Evolution, a French ultralight trike design
• Evolution (marketplace), a black market operating on the Tor network
• Evolution (software), email client and calendar software
• Evolution engine, a motorcycle engine from Harley-Davidson
• LTE (telecommunication) (Long Term Evolution), a telephony and mobile broadband communication standard
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, a sports car

Other

• Evolution (advertisement), a 2006 advertising promotion for the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
• Evolution (Guinness) or noitulovE, a 2005–2006 Guinness advertising campaign
• Evolution (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in WWE
• Evolution (AJPW), a professional wrestling stable in AJPW
• Evolution (ride), an amusement park ride
• Evolution (Markus Schulz Radio show)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with evolution
• All pages with titles containing evolution
• All pages with titles beginning with evolutionary
• All pages with titles containing evolutionary
• Evolute, the locus of all of a curve's centers of curvature
• Evolutionism, widely held 19th century belief that organisms increase in complexity through evolution