It's sometimes convenient, when trying to make sense of evolution, to think of changes within a species as having a purpose, as though mother nature has some intended goal that she sets out to ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

The field of evolution examines how organisms adapt to their environments over generations, but what about the evolution of evolution itself? Researchers have long questioned why biological ...

Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man. Broadly ...

Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know ...

Evolution describes changes in inherited traits ... as relatively anonymous as the sequence of nucleotide bases that make up an organism's DNA. In fact, when we talk about evolutionary inheritance ...

Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars's climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain life.

The approach is underpinned by the millions of years of evolution that led to the creation of proteins by Plasmodium falciparum, the unicellular protozoan parasite that causes malaria. The ...