A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

How will life on Earth and the ecosystems that support it adapt to climate change? Which species will go extinct – or evolve into something new? How will microbes develop further resistance to ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

Robert Shedinger will discuss his work around Darwinian skepticism on Oct. 3. What happens when a professor of religion looks into the scientific literature of evolution biology? That was for Robert ...

The publication of An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford in October 2022 highlights the history of two pivotal figures in the development of modern ...

At 84, Ernst Mayr is as active, intellectually engaged, and committed to the vitality of evolutionary biology as he was in 1942, when he helped launch modern evolutionary theory with the publication ...

Evolution is a fact of nature. Species change over time. The evidence is indisputable. Scientists have actually observed it as species evolved within our lifetimes. Bacteria, for example, have evolved ...

The Freethinker’s student group at Portland State University (PSU) hosted a debate over evolution at PSU on 5-30-31. The debate is now posted online for free ...

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