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

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.

Engelmann says that from the beginning of the Western intellectual tradition, people thought that only humans are rational.

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

The U.S. stock market continues to absorb its knocks, whether geopolitical, credit-linked or trade-induced, and sits at record highs. Any dips continue to be bought as investors bet on lower interest ...