The study of life history evolution is thus about understanding adaptation, the most fundamental issue in evolutionary biology. Here we introduce the basics of life history theory and review what ...

"Studying the rate at which galaxies formed lets us directly test our theories and, so far, we’re lining up with what general ...

All this is understandable in the light of evolution theory; but what a senseless operation it would have been, on God's part, to fabricate a multitude of species ex nihilo and then let most of ...

The discovery of a Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton changed our theory of human evolution forever. The discovery is ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Richard Prum, the author of "The Evolution of Beauty," explains how who a female chooses to mate with can change the common traits that men show. Over time, women can change the evolutionary ...

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In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to a good dose of Darwinian evolution. Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small ...

Having answered the two basic questions posed at the the end of Chapter 2, our present task is to combine the knowledge acquired so far into a general picture of the evolution of stars. We recall that ...