How would you react if I said, “If you meet somebody who claims to believe in evolution, the person is ignorant, stupid or insane”?Wouldn’t that be a little narrow-minded? This is said all the time, ...

Evolution is a hot-button issue right now, as new science standards are being developed for Minnesota’s K-12 education. If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to ...

A new study examines mathematical models designed to draw inferences about how evolution operates at the level of populations of organisms. The study concludes that such models must be constructed ...

A fossil discovered in Scotland provides new insights into one of paleontology's most enduring mysteries: the origins of ...

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 ...

IN 1981 PETER and Rosemary Grant, a husband-and-wife team of evolutionary biologists, spotted something odd on Daphne Major. Every year for the previous decade they had travelled from Princeton ...