''Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution'', is a monthly
scientific journal
In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research.
Content
Articles in scientific journals are mostly written by active scientists such ...
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 the
Society for the Study of Evolution. Its current editor-in-chief is Tracey Chapman.
Former editors-in-chief
The journal was founded soon after the Second World War. Its first editor was the evolutionary geneticist
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His ...
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Ruth Geyer Shaw, July 2013 – 2017
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Daphne Fairbairn, 2010- June 2013
References
External links
Official website
Evolutionary biology journals
Publications established in 1947
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
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