They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far ...

The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.

The work provides the first experimental evidence showing how natural selection can shape genetic systems to enhance future capacity for evolution, challenging traditional perspectives on ...

Intelligent male mosquitofish mate more, suggesting intelligence and brainpower evolved partly for reproduction, not just ...

Although models like this are simplifications of the real world, they are valuable for conceptualizing how evolution might ...

But wait a minute, it seems that we may not need to rely on natural selection or survival of the fittest. Homo sapiens is now able to intervene in the evolution thanks to his advancing knowledge ...

Evolution is the process of heritable change ... which can occur through mechanisms including natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift. Genomic and demographic analysis of an alpine ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

In the final edition of The Origin of Species, published in 1872, Darwin emphasized that his theory of evolution hinged on several factors: natural selection; spontaneous variation (mutation ...

Darwin’s On the Origin of Species crashed through the existing dogma like a storm surge, proposing that life’s staggering diversity arose not from a creator’s whim but from a relentless, blind process ...