The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

In the article "To Effectively Discuss Evolution, First Define 'Theory'" in the May 12 issue of The Scientist (R. Lewis, page 13), it was stated that the term "theory of evolution" should be replaced ...

"Our findings challenge conventional views on upper jaw evolution," the researchers said in a statement. Compared with our distant cousins the reptiles, the faces of mammals are made more complex ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the ...

Although Trump’s orders have not targeted research involving evolution, the authors’ unease about publishing reflects ...

Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. Broadly ...

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face ...