Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

Darwin would have been amazed, for example, to learn that the continents ... corpulent physique—who developed his own early theory of evolution. (It was more purely conceptual than Charles ...

The soil beneath Lord Howe Island's famous Kentia palms could hold the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery that has been confounding scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. The 19th ...

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 ...

Chinese research team's investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century 'giraffe ...

Matt Ridley’s “Birds, Sex and Beauty” explores how mate choice and aesthetics drive evolution, blending lyrical nature writing with deep biological insight.

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Wave after wave of evolutionary theory has prompted research ... been little fresh enlightenment since Darwin's day. “The chief causes of the orderly evolution of the germ are still entirely ...

Biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have released the first broad-scale, comparative, fine-grained analysis linking the amplitude, or volume, of a bird's song to its vocal frequency, ...

May 25, 1925 began in Tennessee in the United States of the South, a process that went down in history as “The monkey process ...

which inspired his thinking on evolution, was 20 years past. Ever since, he had been gathering evidence for his theory in secret. As publication finally loomed, Darwin took the shrewd step of ...