A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of autism-spectrum disorders in humans is ...

The extraordinary evolution of humans is often exemplified by two defining traits: large brains and highly dexterous hands.

F or the past century and a half, the concept of evolution has primarily been wielded by those describing change of a purely ...

The microbiome comprises a multitude of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism. The interactions of body cells and the microbiome form a structural and often ...

Directed evolution is the "process of rapidly evolving proteins, introducing beneficial mutations and selecting advantageous ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

Yale scientists discovered that cavefish species independently evolved blindness and depigmentation as they adapted to dark ...

A study led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz provides the first direct evidence that species that never interact can ...

Reporters from across the United States flocked to eastern Tennessee in July 1925. In the small town of Dayton, biology teacher John Scopes went on trial for the crime of teaching human evolution ...

The evolution of Darwinism : selection, adaptation, and progress in evolutionary biology / Timothy Shanahan Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...