And while the study of evolution is thriving both as a basic science to understand the world and in its applications in agriculture, medicine, and public health, the broad scope of ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

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 ...

“The sea slug Elysia chlorotica is a small, unassuming creature that performs a remarkable feat: It eats algae and steals its chloroplasts, then incorporates them into its own body,” the horoscope ...

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.

New research shows early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical forests, challenging long-held evolutionary theories ...

Assembly Theory posits that any population of molecules can be viewed as a combination of the minimum number of steps needed to assemble it—the history of how it got there—and the number of ...

Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led ...