Charles Darwin: Evolution and the story of our species

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

Updating Darwin: Biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited ...

Why Darwin’s discredited rival may be proved right 200 years later

Most notably, August Weismann, a German biologist, was thought to have disproved the theory in 1904 with an experiment in ...
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Evolution went on trial 100 years ago. Where are we now?

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

An evolutionary model that predates Darwin’s natural selection is making a comeback

Lamarckism contended that an organism may acquire characteristics in response to its environment and pass these on.