Evolution — Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) The world of organisms comprises a great system of individual forms generally classified according to structural… … Catholic encyclopedia
evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… … Universalium
Evolution of mammals — Restoration of Thrinaxodon, a member of the cynodont group, which includes the ancestors of mammals Further information: Evolutionary history of life The evolution of mammals within the synapsid lineage (sometimes called mammal like reptiles )… … Wikipedia
Evolution — This article is about evolution in biology. For other uses, see Evolution (disambiguation). For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to evolution. Part of a series on … Wikipedia
Evolution of cetaceans — The approximately 80 modern species in the order Cetacea. A phylogeny showing the … Wikipedia
Method of quantum characteristics — In quantum mechanics, quantum characteristics are phase space trajectories that arise in the deformation quantization through the Weyl Wigner transform of Heisenberg operators of canonical coordinates and momenta. These trajectories obey the… … Wikipedia
Evolution of the Daleks — Doctorwhobox number=186b serial name=Evolution of the Daleks show=DW caption=The Daleks prepare to create human hybrids.cite episode | title = Evolution of the Daleks | series = Doctor Who | credits = Writer Helen Raynor, Director James Strong,… … Wikipedia
Method of loci — The method of loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero s De Oratore, and Quintilian s … Wikipedia
Evolution of sexual reproduction — The evolution of sexual reproduction is currently described by several competing scientific hypotheses. All sexually reproducing organisms derive from a common ancestor which was a single celled eukaryotic species[1]. Many protists reproduce… … Wikipedia
Evolution of the eye — The evolution of the eye has been a subject of significant study, as a distinctive example of a homologous organ present in a wide variety of taxa. The development of the eye is considered by some experts to be monophyletic; that is, all modern… … Wikipedia