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

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 ...

For more than 150 years, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has sparked one of science's greatest debates. But did later discoveries prove him right? Explore the remarkable story of the ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals—short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form—have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published research ...

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 ...