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 ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Evolution is a change in the inherited characteristics of a population over a number of generations, through the process of natural selection, which may result in the formation of new species. For ...

Tucker Carlson has been mocked by experts after suggesting that Darwin's theory of evolution has been debunked. The ...

"Intelligent design theory" is built on the belief that evolution does not sufficiently explain the complexity that exists in life on Earth and that science should recognize the existence of an ...

If so, that has important effects for life throughout the universe. It suggests that life might have been likely to form ...

for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ... to undermine the teaching of evolution in the U.S.’s public schools have ...

Religious dogma clashed with early science, but fossils and discoveries reshaped humanity’s understanding of Earth’s history.

An international research team has discovered various mechanisms in asexual mites that generate genetic diversity and thus ensure survival.

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.