Almost two-and-a-half years later, on June 3, 1924, Kafka would die of complications related to tuberculosis before his book could be ... by a Darwinian process of evolution by natural selection.

In fact, it is this facet of natural selection that is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious...would be left a fluctuating ...

The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept ... have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain ...

A mutation is a change in the sequence of an organism's DNA. What causes a mutation ... the fitness of future generations are agents of evolution. Mutations are essential to evolution.

The neutral theory of molecular evolution (Kimura 1983) explains this pattern by proposing that most mutations do not have an effect on the fitness of an organism. Under this model, fixed DNA ...