Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted, survived, and diversified in the Himalayas, one of the most ...

Failure is a subject with which Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was familiar. A frenemy and predecessor of Charles Darwin, Lamarck first speculated on the idea of epigenetics with his theory of acquired ...

After the revolution undermined the authority of the Catholic Church, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck put forward a more explicit theory of evolution based on transmutation and the preservation of acquired ...

Darwin had begun to develop his own theory of evolution seven years earlier, in 1838, while reading the demographer T. R. Malthus on factors limiting human population growth.

Evolution is both a fact and a theory. Evolution is widely observable in laboratory and natural populations as they change over time. The fact that we need annual flu vaccines is one example of ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

It is evolutionary theory, interpreted from the perspective of progress, that will allow him to establish these connections and consequently strengthen the reasonableness of the anarchist ideal.

For an evolutionary biologist, seeing AI technologies diversify into all manner of applications looks a lot like the proliferation of microbes, plants and animals in an ecological landscape. Which led ...