Kenneth Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University and a prominent science author, gave a lecture titled “The Evolution Wars: Why Do They Matter? Why Do They Continue?” to a crowded room in ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...

Where do society’s assumptions about ideal diets, clothing, lifestyle, and mating choices come from? Marlene Zuk, a professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota, will ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

This essay is adapted from a piece originally printed in the March/April 2015 issue of Orion. Request a free trial issue of Orion here. To teach evolution at the University of Kentucky is to teach at ...

BYU biology professor Steven Peck discussed the relationship between faith and evolution in this year's Summerhays Lecture. LDS people should believe in both, Peck said. (Anne-Greyson Long) The ...

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