How has the theory of evolution changed over time?
The theory of evolution has been impacted by theoretical refinements and new biological discoveries since it was articulated by Charles Darwin in 1859. Biology as field has matured and diversified greatly in the last one hundred and fifty years, with developments in population genetics, molecular biology, and ecology. Technological changes, new experimental methods, and the wealth of evidence that continuous biological study has provided have resulted in much discussion within biology of the exact ways in which variable traits in a population are inherited. To describe all the changes that biology and with it, the theory of evolution, has undergone would take up more space than is feasible for an FAQ; please refer to the Articles and Resources sections of this website for greater depth on this topic.
