"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Biological Evolution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Biological Evolution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 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 | 6 | 27 |
| 2008 | 21 | 10 | 31 |
| 2009 | 25 | 13 | 38 |
| 2010 | 25 | 8 | 33 |
| 2011 | 32 | 12 | 44 |
| 2012 | 22 | 10 | 32 |
| 2013 | 21 | 14 | 35 |
| 2014 | 21 | 17 | 38 |
| 2015 | 31 | 15 | 46 |
| 2016 | 32 | 12 | 44 |
| 2017 | 20 | 15 | 35 |
| 2018 | 24 | 7 | 31 |
| 2019 | 25 | 16 | 41 |
| 2020 | 21 | 12 | 33 |
| 2021 | 19 | 24 | 43 |
| 2022 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| 2023 | 18 | 9 | 27 |
| 2024 | 21 | 18 | 39 |
| 2025 | 25 | 11 | 36 |
| 2026 | 22 | 12 | 34 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biological Evolution" by people in Profiles.
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Cave evolution on repeat: reuse of the same genomic regions across lineages of Astyanax mexicanus. Genetics. 2026 Oct 07; 234(2).
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Cnidarian mechanosensory cells as ancestors of vertebrate hair cells: Molecular targeting of an ancient mechanotransduction complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Oct 06; 123(40):e2607106123.
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Bird feathers from a Late Cretaceous coprolite. Curr Biol. 2026 Oct 05; 36(19):5107-5116.e7.
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Diversity and disparity are decoupled in the most ecomorphologically diverse rodent radiation. Evolution. 2026 Sep 07; 80(9):2046-2061.
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Highly aquatic marine stem archosaur with soft tissue preservation. Sci Adv. 2026 Jul 31; 12(31):eaeb7528.
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Synnovation and confluence explain disparities in species richness across the Andes and Hengduan-Himalaya Mountains. Nat Commun. 2026 Jul 23; 17(1).
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Phylogenetics, trait covariance analysis, and the evolution of fin and body shape in the surgeonfishes. Evolution. 2026 Jul 08; 80(7):1542-1560.
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Neural tissues and chondrostean traits in a Carboniferous actinopterygian. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 Jul 07; 123(27):e2610438123.
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Direct development of stem tetrapods across the fin-to-limb transition. Science. 2026 Jun 18; 392(6804):1292-1296.
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Reshaping the millipede tree of life by inclusion of the last two unsampled orders. Curr Biol. 2026 Jun 22; 36(12):3184-3192.e3.