"Within the past 50,000 years most of the variation that is seen among human populations evolved," said researcher Jason ...

Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...

Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg… In recent decades Charles Darwin’s explanation of evolution through natural selection has been challenged by an alternative theory called Intelligent Design.

Natural selection is a mechanism of evolution. Organisms that are more adapted to their ... genetic mutations that are beneficial to an individual’s survival are passed on through reproduction. This ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits of populations through successive generations ... A second important point is that evolution and natural selection are not equivalent terms.

Evolution could alter or even eliminate some of the human traits we cherish most, changing forever what it means to be human.

in an attempt to gain a little more understanding of how convergent evolution works. "Phasmids (stick and leaf insects) exemplify the extraordinary power of natural selection to shape organismal ...

Does this make evolution irrelevant ... has expressed doubts. “We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species ...

Evolution is the process of heritable ... which can occur through mechanisms including natural selection, sexual selection and genetic drift. Aquatic algae called diatoms have been found to ...

As time goes by, the system will grow more diverse and complex, gaining the functions needed for survival, through a kind of natural selection. They speculated that there might be a law to describe ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...