Dawkins’s Selfish Gene was a pillar of modern Darwinism. If it is tottering, there will be plenty of mopping up — and room ...

Most of us have heard about the importance of failure our entire lives. Recent research, rooted in the psychology of ...

Based on the 20th anniversary commemorative program 'Genesis of the Universe' produced in 2011, and featuring an original ...

Scientists now know that they shared many of the sophisticated abilities of Homo sapiens. So why are we the only humans left ...

At the other extreme, if a significant number of people convince themselves, or are convinced by their priests, that a martyr ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

The origins of the universe, the complexity of life, and the mystery of human consciousness raise profound questions about ...

Darwin was a bald man with bushy eyebrows and a big beard. Troubled by the notion that humans and animals share ancestry, ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...