The philosopher Jerry Fodor was important for the same reason you’ve probably never heard of him: he was unimpressed, to put it politely, by the intellectual trends of the day. His focus was the ...

A peculiar study into malaria resistance in humans, and where and how it occurs in the population, has unexpectedly spurred a re-evaluation of the neo-Darwinist understanding of evolution.

Symbiogeneticist Lynn Margulis, who was awarded the US Presidential Medal for Science in 1999, says “survival of the fittest” is a “capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin” ...

Like several investigators before him, Mendel experimented on hybrids of different varieties of a plant. Mendel investigated the common pea plant (Pisum sativum). His methods differed in two essential ...

Abdul Rahman Abdul Talib's letter contains many factual errors. His letter is a series of poorly-understood theories in a clumsy attempt to fit square pegs into round holes, and at times shooting ...

Discover how directed mutation in bacteria challenges neo-Darwinism by showing E. coli adapt through specific mutations when needed. In which the ghost of that oft-reviled ancestor, Jean-Baptiste ...

Since my op-ed piece of Jan. 23, several letters to the editor have accused me of advocating teaching religion in the classroom. Let me repeat: It is not and will never be appropriate to teach ...

Can evolution and religious faith coexist? Are those who believe in G-d destined to forever reject scientific findings? Does accepting neo-Darwinism mean becoming an atheist? Rabbi Michael Avraham ...

If you had to name the most influential thinker of the 20th century, who would it be: Freud? Einstein? Mao? Bill Gates? Of course, no-one has yet developed a reliable instrument for measuring the ...

Darwin may have addressed the natural world, but his insights still offer some valuable lessons in business. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and how businesses are adapt to this new ...