When our distant ancestors first traded nomadic life for farming, villages, and permanent homes, you might assume that the ...

From the tiniest microbe to towering ferns, evolution is the engine behind life’s incredible diversity. Through genetic drift, natural selection, and gene flow, species adapt, diversify, or disappear.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection was inspired by the isolated and exotic plants and animals of the Galapagos Islands. Some religious groups don't accept that theory. In ...

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For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Cristián Samper, evolutionary biologist and the director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, discusses his favorite evotourism sites. Brendan Smialowski Cristián Samper is an ...