Updating Darwin: Biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

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

Why Darwin’s discredited rival may be proven right 200 years later

For centuries, Charles Darwin’s rival has been mocked and dismissed for his alternative theory of evolution. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed his evolutionary theory half a centur ...

Scientists turn modern biobanks into a new window on human evolution

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...
Medical Xpress

Evolutionary medicine could offer new therapeutic approaches to chronic IBD

New experimental studies by numerous research groups, including the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) in Plön and Kiel University (CAU), suggest that evolutionary medicine could ...
Science Daily

Scientists say evolution may work differently than we thought

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 ...
Psychology Today

A Brief History of Evolutionary Psychology

Trying to understand human behavior (a basic feature of our species, shaped by natural selection) without understanding evolutionary principles would be like trying to understand the details of a car ...