The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ancestral lineages.

When they got to the upper jawbone, however, the researchers said that they found evidence that challenged conventional theories of development and evolution. Pictured: The facial bones and nerves ...

So forth and so on. The most recent, broadly recognized codification of evolutionary theory is known as the Modern Synthesis. After nearly 3 decades of theorizing, experimentation, and writing by ...

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 ...

Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years ...

If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to a good dose of Darwinian evolution. Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small ...

Prof. Sir George Darwin by his theory of tidal evolution has attempted to explain the swift motion of the inner satellite of Mars, the fact that the moon always turns the same face toward the ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

Mar. 31, 2025 — A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is ... New Species Revealed ...

In the traditional view of how evolution works, natural selection acts on an individual organism's traits. For instance, mammals with more friends typically live longer lives and have more offspring.