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

Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities by Kristan Lawson explores Darwin's life and work, from his historic trip around the Galapagos Islands, which helped shape his ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In Kwame A. Mensah’s article "Creationism is an escape clause to not study science" (May 3), he urges us to teach and promote ...

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

Rock Island native Jonathan Tweet is atwitter over the prospect of completing his long-planned book for preschoolers on evolution. The award-winning, Seattle-based, veteran game designer already has ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

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

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...

In 1973, evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that "nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution." Almost 50 years later, an increasing number of scientists are asking ...