Evolution has produced countless amazing life forms, but you need look no further than to the human body to find examples showing that evolution has also produced a number of poor constructions."The ...

Researchers have found that DNA mutations are not random. This changes our understanding of evolution and could one day help researchers breed better crops or even help humans fight cancer. A simple ...

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 ...

MUCH of the work that has lately appeared on the subject of organic evolution has been characterised, if not by a misapprehension of the main points at issue, at any rate by a want of due proportion ...

Introduction. The checkered career of hierarchical thinking in evolutionary biology / Niles Eldredge -- Part 1. Hierarchy theory of evolution. Linking section. General principles of biological ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary shift — driven not by genes, but by culture. In a paper published in the Oxford ...