Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Recursive self-improvement AI now has a co-evolving evaluator: a Cambridge and NVIDIA preprint introduces the Red Queen Gödel ...

Charles Darwin's timeless insight reminds us that intelligence isn't measured by what we know but by how well we adapt when ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Voyage of the Beagle that eventually led to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Credit: Image by Kipala, Samsara and Souza, from a map by Webmaster, CC-BY-SA license In an ironic turn of history, two ...

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date ...

The Darwinian Gardener's moratorium on removing dead plants has ended now that it’s April. Only last week, tree guys swarmed his backyard to take down a massive laurel oak that had been living in tree ...

The idea that modern humans inherited DNA from Neanderthal ancestors is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated discoveries in evolution. It may not be that ...

In a world conditioned by evolutionary advantage, Christians are called to welcome those who seem naturally selected for failure. A hundred years ago in Dayton, Tennessee, high school teacher John ...

When people hear "Darwin's theory of evolution," many may think of "survival of the fittest." The strong win, and the weak perish. Only the individuals best adapted to their environment survive, and ...

This year marked the 20th anniversary of the annual Darwin Days in Ithaca, which is hosted by the Museum of the Earth. More than 160 years after Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, ...