A sweet tooth for sugars from fruits and honey may have helped fuel brain growth in our primate cousins and early human ...

Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first “living” thing was created, and evolution began. But even the simplest organism is made up of enormously complicated chemical ...

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

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A new study from the University of Michigan suggests that organisms could get better at evolving over time. Researchers used a computer program to simulate organisms switching between beneficial and ...

“Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a frustrated biophysicist, Royal Society fellow and pioneer of the field of systems biology. “They don’t exist. Where will they be? They won’t ...

Ever since the Dayton, Tenn., “monkey trial” of 1925, which was a technical victory for Fundamentalism because William Jennings Bryan swung a hillbilly jury away from Clarence Darrow and one John ...

The bitter culture wars over the teaching of evolution in public schools dominated headlines throughout the 2000s, in large part because of the Bush administration’s coziness with evangelicals who ...