Natural selection explains how this evolution has happened: More organisms are produced than can survive because of limited resources. Organisms struggle for the necessities of life; there is ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the ...

“Biology students at least should have the opportunity to learn about the flaws and limits of Darwin’s theory while they are learning about the theory’s strongest claims.” Some defenders of “evolution ...

Although elements of what we now know as evolution had been discussed in the scientific community before Darwin’s groundbreaking work, he was the first to posit a complete theory accounting for ...

For species to survive, they would have had to adapt. That is what Charles Darwin proposed in his 1859 theory of evolution in ...

A spate of books about evolution followed, as well as full-throated attacks on religion, particularly its creationist aspects ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

A recent study by Georgia Tech evolutionary ecologist James Stroud shows that evolution can happen much faster than Charles Darwin thought. To figure this out, Stroud and his team took advantage ...

Natural selection explains how this evolution has happened: More organisms are produced than can survive because of limited resources. Organisms struggle for the necessities of life; there is ...