The mechanisms by which life changes over generational or geological time: natural selection, convergent evolution and symbiosis. Distinct from the shorter, organism level phenomena in Animal Behavior and Adaptation because these operate across populations and lineages rather than within a single animal's lifetime.
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1. Wikipedia: Evolution
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Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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