The British naturalist was the first to offer evidence to explain the mechanism that makes evolution possible: natural selection. And so he became one of the most important thinkers and scientists ...

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of ...

A new study, suggests just that. Evolutionary biologists have found evidence that the ability to evolve — a concept known as ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... not in enough detail to come to any great conclusions. But the steady accumulation of observations was building up. Home again, Darwin showed ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Leucippus' ancient atomic theory bears striking parallels to the modern Big Bang model showcasing his visionary perspective on cosmic origins ...

“Once a population has achieved this evolvability, it seems like it didn’t get erased by future evolution,” Zaman said. This ...

After studying the diets of living hunter-gatherers and concluding that 73 percent of these societies derived more than half their calories from meat, Cordain came up with his own Paleo ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in France. “Of all the universities in the world,” Herring writes, “none has ever ...

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our ...