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” ...

The Modern Synthesis (or “Neo-Darwinism”), which arose out of the reconciliation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection and Mendel’s research on genetics, remains the foundation of evolutionary ...

A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory by ...

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 ...

Scopes trial becomes Scopes myth. A popular-yet-inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the Scopes trial. The trial is reduced to a simplistic battle ...

Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna Christoph Schönborn has stepped into the confused controversies surrounding evolution, and added some much needed clarity. Just enough clarity, mind you. Not too much.