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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

A deep dive into the genetics of butterflies offers new clues as to how these pollinators shared DNA across generations. Nate Edelman, a graduate student at Harvard University and an author on the ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

Charles Darwin believed evolution created “endless forms most beautiful.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it doesn’t explain why evolution keeps making crabs. Scientists have long wondered whether there ...

The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability - it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of ...

Religion influences secondary school students' understanding and acceptance of evolutionary theory, but social and cultural factors such as nationality, perceptions of science and household income are ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...