Open access · peer reviewed · ISSN 2689-4602
Journal of Evolutionary Science
A journal for work that argues. Evolutionary science advances by contested claim as much as by new sequence, and this journal publishes the evidence and the reasoning offered for it — across fundamental and applied research, methods and resources, observational and experimental study, replication, and evidence synthesis.
- Published since2018
- DOI registrationCrossref, prefix 10.14302
- RightsCC BY 4.0, authors retain copyright
Questions this journal is open on
Each question below is live in the literature. Under each one is work the journal has published that bears on it. Follow a question to the research rather than to a publication date.
01
What can one organism tell us about how a species divides?
Speciation is argued from genetics, from development and from population structure, and the three do not always agree on where a boundary falls.
- Published in this journal
- Ontogenes in Drosophila Melanogaster and a Model of Speciation B.F. Chadov, N.B. Fedorova · Research article
- Ontogenes and the Problem of Speciation Boris F Chadov, E.V. Chadova, N.B Fedorova · Research article
02
How far does a conserved sequence carry across lineages?
Conservation is read as evidence of constraint. How much weight a single domain or gene family can bear across a clade remains a methodological question.
- Published in this journal
- Rbm45 Phylogenetics, Protein Domain Conservation, and Gene Architecture in Clade Metazoa Virdjinija Vuchkovska, Teagan N. Marti, Anali Cisneros, Lauren M. Saiki, Jeffrey O. Henderson · Research article
- Evolutionary Conservation of Hox Genes in Vertebrate Brain Development Samantha G. Struemph, Jeffrey O. Henderson · Review
03
Can evolution be read while it is happening?
Sequencing at scale made contemporary evolution observable in near real time, and raised the question of what a short interval can support.
- Published in this journal
- Molecular Evolution of the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Emily C. Vook, Jeffrey O. Henderson · Review
- Interactions Between Natural Nuclear Reactors and Microbial Evolutionary Processes Chuck Easttom · Research article
04
Is complexity a quantity, or a description?
Attempts to measure organization formally sit between evolutionary biology and information theory, and disagree about what is being counted.
- Published in this journal
- Structuredness as a Measure of the Complexity of the Structure and the Role of Post-Dissipative Structures and Ratchet Processes in Evolution George Mikhailovsky · Research article
- General Evolution of the Universe Driven by Attraction and Four Levels of Biological Evolution as its Essential Part George Mikhailovsky · Research article
05
Is "evolution" one concept, or several that share a word?
The term carries different meanings across molecular biology, ecology and the history of ideas. Work that examines the term itself is published here.
- Published in this journal
- Evolution of the Concept of Evolution George Mikhailovsky · Letter to the editor
- Conservation, Creation, and Evolution: Revising the Darwinian Project Gennady Shkliarevsky · Review
- Is Natural Selection still have to be Regarded A Foundation Stone of Evolutionary Process? Andrey I. Granovitch · Review
These questions are examples, not the boundary of the journal’s remit. The aims and scope sets out the full range of work considered, and the archive lists every record the journal has published.
Who decides here
Editorial responsibility sits with named researchers. Each name and portrait below opens that editor’s profile, with their affiliation and research area.
Editor-in-Chief
Global Mind Share, United States · United States
Evolution
ORCID 0000-0002-7011-2468
Editorial Board
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. · China
Marine nitrogen biogeochemistry
Editorial Board
Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang · China
Biodiversity
Editorial Board
Deputy Head, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS, Changchun, Jilin · China
biogeochemical processes of nutrients
How a manuscript is handled
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review.
Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Those decisions are independent of fees, services, memberships, and editorial roles.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Access
- Open access; every article is free to read on publication
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0; authors retain copyright
- Volume and issues
- Volume 1, Issues 1–4
Where to go next
- Read the researchEvery record the journal has published, by volume and issue, in the archive, with the newest in the current issue.
- Check whether your work fitsThe aims and scope sets out what the journal considers and how scientific fit is judged.
- Prepare a manuscriptPreparation requirements are in the instructions for authors; the editorial policies cover ethics, data and corrections.
- Understand the chargesThe article processing charges page states the fee and when it applies.