Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

It’s not always the best-adapted animal that survives. Sometimes, it’s the one that exploits its fellow creatures ...

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When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Charles Darwin has an illustrious place in history as the father of evolution. His ideas forever changed how we understand life on Earth. Yet, behind his serious veneer and groundbreaking research and ...