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

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Since publication of their paper, “spandrel” has become shorthand among evolutionary biologists for an incidental trait, or ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

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 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A study reveals that sticklebacks with complete bony plates have survival rates several percentage points higher than those with reduced plates, indicating ongoing natural selection. Moreover, the ...

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the ...