More than 160 years after Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, scientists say they have proved one of his theories right. Researchers writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Neutral theory claims that the overwhelming majority of evolutionary changes at the molecular level are not caused by selection acting on advantageous mutants, but by random fixation of selectively ...

As anyone who is familiar with personality trait theory knows, researchers have identified a “big five” of dispositional tendencies that reliably predict human behavioral patterns and show up almost ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, ...

Usually, when someone starts talking about the interface between evolution and physics, it's a prelude to a terrible argument that attempts to claim that evolution can't possibly happen. So, ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Setting the table -- The heart of the matter: adaptation and natural selection -- The great stasis debate -- Evolution in real time: puntuated equilibria and the eternal species wrangle -- High stakes ...