# Evolutionary Biology

> Evolutionary biology studies the processes that have shaped the diversity of life over billions of years, integrating paleontology, genetics, ecology, and developmental biology. Ancient DNA technology now recovers genome sequences from specimens tens of thousands of years old, revealing population migrations, admixture with archaic hominins, and the genetic basis of adaptation to new environments. Comparative genomics identifies conserved regulatory elements and tracks how gene content changes across lineages. Evo-devo research asks how changes in developmental gene networks generate novel morphologies during evolution. The field has direct applications in antibiotic resistance, pandemic preparedness, and conservation genetics.

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**Researcher count:** 42,000
**Average funding:** $410K

## Subfields

- Population Genetics
- Phylogenetics
- Speciation
- Evo-Devo
- Molecular Evolution

## Key technologies

- Ancient DNA Sequencing
- Whole-Genome Resequencing
- Bayesian Phylogenetics
- Comparative Genomics
- CRISPR Functional Testing

## Top institutions

- University of California Berkeley
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Harvard University
- University of Edinburgh
- Uppsala University

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