Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

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 Add Popular Science ...

CELEBRATED palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould once wondered what would happen if we could rewind the tape of life. If it were possible to turn the clock back half a billion years and then let evolution ...

Yes it is, like Einstein’s theory of special relativity. By theory, scientists mean an explanation backed by evidence. What creationists mean is that evolution is just a hypothesis, unsupported by ...