Stanford study finds rapid brain cell evolution boosted human cognition but lowered autism gene activity, raising vulnerability.

In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of thousands, Masatoshi Nei is experiencing a technical glitch. The biologist has just received Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, ...

From natural selection to the history of nature -- From the units of inheritance to the origin of species -- Multicellularity and the developmental code -- Life cycle evolution : life and death of the ...

Behe touts the concept of ‘irreducible complexity,’ asserting that certain biological systems cannot evolve through gradual ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

The early part of the twentieth century saw evolutionary theory embattled by disagreements over Darwin's emphasis on natural selection. The then-newly rediscovered work of Gregor Mendel in the ...

At only 22 years of age, Charles Darwin went on a voyage that would forever change our understanding of the world. Studying birds, he noticed that finches from one island had differently shaped beaks ...

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the rapid outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has severely affected the global economy and ...

For many people of various faiths, support for the scientific theory of evolution has not supplanted their religious belief. And throughout the modern Judeo-Christian tradition, leaders have asserted ...