For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

Most notably, August Weismann, a German biologist, was thought to have disproved the theory in 1904 with an experiment in ...

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited ...

A long-disputed rule in biology says bigger is better, but a new computer model illuminates why that’s not necessarily true. By Lauren Leffer Published Jan 18, 2024 11:45 AM EST Add Popular Science ...

A major research study is challenging one of evolution’s most influential ideas: that most genetic changes that become permanent are essentially neutral. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary ...

When Darwin proposed his theory that asserted that humans share a common ancestry with other animals through an evolutionary process, a common rebuttal claimed that there needed to be a creature who ...