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1,028 capsules, each one classified by the strength of its evidence.

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genetics
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The Molecular Clock

The proposal that genetic differences accumulate at a roughly constant rate, so counting them dates the split between two lineages. It transformed…

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biology
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The Major Transitions in Evolution

The proposal that the history of life is punctuated by a small number of events in which independently reproducing entities combined into a larger…

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biology
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The Sexy Son Hypothesis

The proposal that a female may benefit from choosing an attractive mate even if he provides nothing else, because her sons inherit the attractiveness…

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biology
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The Baldwin Effect

The proposal that behaviours learned during life can steer subsequent genetic evolution, without any Lamarckian inheritance of acquired traits. It…

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geology
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The Boring Billion

The proposal that Earth spent roughly a billion years, from about 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago, in near-total stasis: stable climate, stable…

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biology
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Group Selection

The proposal that natural selection can act on groups as well as individuals, favouring traits that benefit the group at the individual's expense. It…

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biology
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Niche Construction

The proposal that organisms do not merely adapt to environments but build them, and that the environments they build become selection pressures for…

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biology
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The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

The proposal that evolutionary theory needs restructuring to give causal roles to development, inheritance beyond genes, and organisms shaping their…

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biology
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The Red Queen Hypothesis

The proposal that organisms must keep evolving simply to maintain their position, because everything they interact with is evolving too. It takes its…

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biology
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Antagonistic Pleiotropy

The proposal that ageing is caused by genes which help early in life and harm later, and which selection favours anyway because early effects matter…

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biology
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The Disposable Soma Theory

The proposal that organisms age because it is not worth the energy to maintain a body indefinitely when something will kill it anyway. It explains…

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immunology
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The Old Friends Hypothesis

The proposal that the immune system requires exposure to organisms it co-evolved with in order to develop proper regulation, and that losing those…

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biology
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The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis

The proposal that the human attraction to alcohol descends from a primate ancestor's taste for fermenting fruit, in which ethanol signalled ripeness…

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anthropology
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The Savanna Hypothesis

The proposal that human ancestors left the forest for open grassland, and that walking upright, losing body hair and much else followed from that…

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anthropology
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The Cooking Hypothesis

Richard Wrangham's proposal that cooking made humans human: that controlling fire and processing food with it supplied the energy for a large brain,…

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biology
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Viral Eukaryogenesis

The proposal that the cell nucleus originated as a large DNA virus that took up permanent residence in an ancestral cell. It is a minority position…

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molecular biology
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The RNA World Hypothesis

The proposal that early life used RNA for both heredity and catalysis, before DNA and proteins divided those jobs between them. It solves a genuine…

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anthropology
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The Self-Domestication Hypothesis

The proposal that humans domesticated themselves, selecting over many generations against aggression and for tolerance, and that this produced our…

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anthropology
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The Endurance Running Hypothesis

The proposal that humans evolved to run long distances, and that running down prey over hours in the heat was how our ancestors hunted before…

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anthropology
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The Obstetrical Dilemma

The proposal that human childbirth is difficult because walking upright narrowed the pelvis while brains grew larger, leaving birth as a compromise…

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