"Biological Evolution" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process of cumulative change over successive generations through which organisms acquire their distinguishing morphological and physiological characteristics.
| Descriptor ID |
D005075
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.045 G16.075
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 1996 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1997 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 1998 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 1999 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 2000 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 2001 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| 2002 | 16 | 12 | 28 |
| 2003 | 11 | 5 | 16 |
| 2004 | 13 | 7 | 20 |
| 2005 | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| 2006 | 22 | 11 | 33 |
| 2007 | 21 | 5 | 26 |
| 2008 | 22 | 10 | 32 |
| 2009 | 25 | 13 | 38 |
| 2010 | 25 | 9 | 34 |
| 2011 | 32 | 12 | 44 |
| 2012 | 22 | 10 | 32 |
| 2013 | 20 | 14 | 34 |
| 2014 | 21 | 17 | 38 |
| 2015 | 30 | 14 | 44 |
| 2016 | 30 | 10 | 40 |
| 2017 | 19 | 13 | 32 |
| 2018 | 22 | 7 | 29 |
| 2019 | 24 | 16 | 40 |
| 2020 | 19 | 12 | 31 |
| 2021 | 18 | 21 | 39 |
| 2022 | 19 | 10 | 29 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6 | 20 |
| 2024 | 22 | 17 | 39 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Evolution" by people in Profiles.
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The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota. Sci Adv. 2025 May 23; 11(21):eadv1171.
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Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan. Nature. 2025 May; 641(8065):1201-1207.
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Secondary Sympatry as a Sorting Process. Ecol Lett. 2025 Apr; 28(4):e70108.
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Genetic, developmental, and neural changes underlying the evolution of butterfly mate preference. PLoS Biol. 2025 Mar; 23(3):e3002989.
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Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2025 Feb 27; 380(1920):20230426.
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Synovial joints were present in the common ancestor of jawed fish but lacking in jawless fish. PLoS Biol. 2025 Feb; 23(2):e3002990.
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Evolution: Sexual selection and the origin of species. Curr Biol. 2025 Feb 24; 35(4):R154-R156.
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Adaptive Evolution of Freezing Tolerance in Oaks Is Key to Their Dominance in North America. Ecol Lett. 2025 Feb; 28(2):e70084.
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Colonization Dynamics Explain the Decoupling of Species Richness and Morphological Disparity in Syngnatharian Fishes across Oceans. Am Nat. 2025 Mar; 205(3):E80-E99.
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Early-middle Permian Mediterranean gorgonopsian suggests an equatorial origin of therapsids. Nat Commun. 2024 12 17; 15(1):10346.