Evolution (journal)

{{short description|Monthly journal in the science of evolutionary biology}}

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| abbreviation = Evolution

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| editor = Jason Wolf

| frequency = Monthly

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| discipline = Evolutionary Biology

| history = 1947–present

| country = United States

| publisher = Oxford Academic for the Society for the Study of Evolution

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| impact = 3.742

| impact-year = 2020

| ISSN = 0014-3820

| eISSN = 1558-5646

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| JSTOR = 00143820

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| website = https://academic.oup.com/evolut

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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.{{Cite journal|title=Evolution |journal=Evolution |doi=10.1111/(ISSN)1558-5646}}

Former editors-in-chief

The journal was founded soon after the Second World War. Its first editor was the systematic ornithologist Ernst Mayr.{{cite book |last=Smocovitis |first=Vassiliki Betty |year=1996 |title=Unifying Biology: The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology |location=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-03343-3 |lccn=96005605 |oclc=34411399 |page=157}}

  • Ruth Geyer Shaw, July 2013 – 2017{{cite web|title=Richard Lenski Updates|url=http://www.evolutionsociety.org/content/society-news/presidents-message/richard-lenski-updates.html|website=Society for the Study of Evolution|access-date=31 March 2017}}
  • Daphne Fairbairn, 2010 – June 2013

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