Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

By analyzing the genetic material of thousands of ancient humans, researchers have mapped how natural selection influenced ...

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The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied in detail. Yet the book’s gene-centred view of evolution still has much to ...

Charles Darwins work transformed the understanding of life by showing that survival is driven less by strength or ...

Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ...