This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 5 (May 1963), p. 45 doi:10.1038 ...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

Two-million-year-old teeth transform theory of prehistoric human evolution - ANALYSIS: Changes in the appearance of ancient ...

This rapid evolution in microscopic organisms can help scientists study adaptation through laboratory experiments. Charles Darwin comes to mind when we think of the theory of evolution.

In it, author Stephen Buranyi gives voice to a growing number of scientists who think it's time for a "new theory of evolution." For a long time, descent with slight modifications and natural ...

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 ...

Tucker Carlson has been mocked by experts after suggesting that Darwin's theory of evolution has been debunked. The broadcaster made the comments on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast ...

The US botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey published a paper in 1894 pondering whether the formulation of neo-Darwinism, the mainstream version of evolutionary theory, needed extending (it didn’t); in ...

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester ...