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

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is celebrating its 50-year anniversary, continues to capture human imagination ...

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

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 ...

To put it bluntly, Quirk Evolution involves the theory that Quirks in successive generations will gradually grow in strength, ...

The study of life history evolution is thus about understanding adaptation, the most fundamental issue in evolutionary biology. Here we introduce the basics of life history theory and review what ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

"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 ...

The results indicate that having a wider pelvis reduces the risk of complications during birth, but results in slower walking ...