When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

The human chin is uniquely human, and the assumption has always been that it must have evolved for a specific purpose, ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

India, Feb. 12 -- On 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, a boy was born who would later be responsible for how humans ...

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

The “selfish gene” reframed evolution by shifting focus away from organisms and toward genes themselves. In this view, survival and behavior are shaped by how effectively genes replicate, not by ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin was among the facial features Hammett used to describe his fictional ...