Evolution (disambiguation)

In biology, evolution is change in traits of a population of organisms over time (due to a number of mechanisms and processes). In other contexts, evolution (term) can mean any gradual directional change.

Evolution may also refer to:

Companies

• Evolution Group, a British financial services business
• Evolutions Television, a British television post-production company

Motion pictures

Film

• Dragonball Evolution, a 2009 film by James Wong
• Evolution (1971 film), an animated short by Michael Mills
• Evolution (film), a 2001 film by Ivan Reitman
• Underworld: Evolution, a 2006 film

Television

• "Evolution" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "Evolution" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
• Evolution (TV series), a documentary television series
• X-Men: Evolution, an American television series

Festivals

• Evolution Festival, an annual Italian metal music festival

Games

• CycloDS Evolution, a Nintendo DS hardware for home brew games.
• Evolution (party game)
• Evolution Championship Series, a Yearly fighting game tournament.
• Evolution Studios, a British video game developer
• Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life a strategy game edited by Discovery Channel
• Evolution: The World of Sacred Device, a video game
• Pokémon evolution, a sudden change in form in the Pokémon universe
• Pro Evolution Soccer, a soccer videogame
• Turok: Evolution, a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Acclaim Entertainment
• Tron: Evolution, an action-adventure video game.

Literature

• Evolution (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who novel
• Evolution (journal), a bimonthly scientific journal
• Evolution (novel), a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis by Julian Huxley
• The Theory of Evolution, a popular science book by John Maynard Smith

Music

Albums

• Ciara: The Evolution
• Evolution, an album (and song) by Roy Ayers
• Evolution, a smooth jazz album by Pamela Williams (2002), featuring Teena Marie on the single, ""I Am Love"
• Evolution (Boyz II Men album)
• Evolution (Decoded Feedback album)
• Evolution (Edge of Sanity album)
• Evolution (Hollies album)
• Evolution (Journey album)
• Evolution (Tony MacAlpine album)
• Evolution (Martina McBride album)
• Evolution (Grachan Moncur III album)
• Evolution (news music), a television news music package by Stephen Arnold Music
• Evolution (Masami Okui album)
• Evolution (Twins album)
• Evolution (Viper album)
• Evolution: The Hits (Dead Or Alive album)
• Evolution Theory, 2005 Candy Lo studio album

Songs

• "Do the Evolution", a song by Pearl Jam.
• "Evolution", a song by Cat Power from You Are Free
• "Evolution", a song by Motörhead from WWE ThemeAddict: The Music, Vol. 6
• "Evolution" a song by State Radio from their album "Let It Go" and EP "Calling All Crows"
• "Evolution", a song by Viper (band)
• "Evolution" (Korn song)
• "Evolution" (song), a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• Evolution (The Grand Design), a song by progressive metal band Symphony X, from their 2000 album V-The New Mythology Suite

Other

• "Evolution", the main theme in Lady Gaga's 2009-2010 The Monster Ball Tour

Technology

• Beagle 2: Evolution, the proposed successor to the Beagle 2 Mars lander
• Evolution (software), email client and calendar software
• Evolution engine, a motorcycle engine from Harley-Davidson
• Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, a sports car

Other uses

• Evolution (advertisement), an advertising promotion for the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
• Evolution (Guinness) or noitulovE, a 2005-2006 Guinness advertising campaign
• Evolution (professional wrestling), a former professional wrestling stable in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
• Evolution (ride), an amusement park ride
• Evolution (term)

See also

• Chemical evolution (disambiguation)
• Differential evolution, a method of mathematical optimization of multidimensional functions
• Evolute, the locus of all of a curve's centers of curvature
• Evolutionism, a widely held 19th century belief that organisms are intrinsically bound to improve themselves, and that changes are progressive and arise through inheritance of acquired characters
• Galaxy formation and evolution, the study of the processes that formed a heterogeneous universe from a homogeneous beginning, the formation of the first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time, and the processes that have generated the variety of structures observed in nearby galaxies
• Human evolution, the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens as a distinct species
• Language change, or Language evolution
  • Evolution of language
  • Evolutionary linguistics
• Organic evolution, change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next
• Oxygen evolution, the process of generating molecular oxygen through chemical reaction
• Pascendi Dominici Gregis, or evolution of dogma, the idea that certain fundamental Catholic dogmas can change with time
• Sociocultural evolution, term for theories describing how cultures and societies have developed over time
• Software evolution
• Spiritual evolution, the philosophical, theological, esoteric or spiritual idea that nature and human beings and/or human culture evolve along a predetermined cosmological pattern or ascent, or in accordance with certain pre-determined potentials
• Stellar evolution, the development of stars
• Technological evolution
• Theistic evolution, the general opinion that classical religious teachings about God and creation are compatible with some or all of the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution
• Time evolution, change of state brought about by the passage of time
• Universal evolution, views on cosmological development