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

For more than a century, scientists have sought to reconstruct human evolution using diverse lines of evidence, including ...

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, ...

A new landmark study has uncovered evidence that challenges the long-held beliefs about human evolution.

A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EB) sheds fresh light on one of the most debated concepts in biology: evolvability. The work provides the first ...

Adam Rutherford salutes a show that finally links the spectacle of natural history with the science that explains it ...

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A new study uses age-stratified allele frequencies to map ongoing natural selection and rare pathogenic variants.

The peppered moth is an iconic example of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. For centuries peppered moths (Biston betularia) were common in the forests around Manchester, ...

“Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a frustrated biophysicist, Royal Society fellow and pioneer of the field of systems biology. “They don’t exist. Where will they be? They won’t ...