Darwin

For anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have ...

A new gene-editing technique may be safer and more reliable than CRISPR-Cas9, according to a recent study ...

So-called 'cancel culture' has already taken down a handful of prominent scientists and philosophers, living and deceased. One evolutionary biologist ...

Most people assume that Darwin was talking about physical strength when referring to “survival of the fittest,” meaning that a ...

In his most famous work, Charles Darwin proposed that this amazing process is governed by a simple rule: selection of ...

Kat Arney takes a look at the world of epigenetics, finding out if more than DNA passes on to the ...

The genius of evolution is its brutal pragmatism; do whatever is needed to pass your genes onto the next generation ...

Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution shook up Britain’s Victorian establishment upon the release of On the Origin of Species, the 1859 ...

Such widespread rejection of the theory of evolution is fueled in part by the notion that evolution is “just a ...

To put it simply, we have let Darwinism set the horizon of possibility for human behavior. Competition has become a ...

Kat Arney tackles the myths and misconceptions around two of the most iconic images in evolutionary biology: the 'March of ...

Evolution has no final endpoint in mind ...

Cancers that have spread, known as metastatic disease, are rarely curable. The reasons that patients die despite effective treatment are ...

It is a crowning achievement of Western civilization and a rejoinder to the modern myths of the Left ...

Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...

Evolutionary biology has always been controversial. Not controversial among biologists, but controversial among the general public. This is largely because ...

Canadian scientists have identified microscopic creatures that are so unlike anything seen before, they had to create an entirely new ...

Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had ...

Describing life is difficult and evasive. Will we fully understand life if we can create it through synthetic biology? ...

Darwinian evolution [is] the transmission of genes and traits down the family line. DNA, it turns out, can also be ...

On Nov. 3, 1977, a new scientific revolution was heralded to the world — but it came cryptically, in slightly ...

Evolution is a work in progress, so it’s hardly surprising that some of the features it has built into the ...