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Evolution (journal)

Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events. Evolution is published by Oxford Academic for the Society for the Study of Evolution. Its current editor-in-chief is Jason Wolf of the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

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Evolution
DisciplineEvolutionary Biology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJason Wolf
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History1947–present
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3.742 (2020)
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ISSN0014-3820 (print)
1558-5646 (web)
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Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events. Evolution is published by Oxford Academic (formerly by Wiley) for the Society for the Study of Evolution. Its current editor-in-chief is Jason Wolf of the University of Bath, United Kingdom.1

Former editors-in-chief

The journal was founded soon after the Second World War. Its first editor was the systematic ornithologist Ernst Mayr.2

References

References

  1. "Evolution". Evolution. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1558-5646.
  2. Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty (1996). Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-691-03343-3. LCCN 96005605. OCLC 34411399.
  3. "Richard Lenski Updates". Society for the Study of Evolution. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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