Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin stepped off the HMS Beagle, his luggage is still giving up secrets. We often think of the story of how we came up with the theory of evolution by natural ...

A sweeping new review of five decades of scientific literature finds robust evidence that natural selection operates simultaneously across multiple ...

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New research from Michigan State University suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. Reporting in the journals New ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora and ...