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"Survival of the fittest" has become one of the most misunderstood phrases in science. Walk into any gym and you'll see it ...

Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

According to David Stipp’s jaunty but learned survey of 21st-century evolutionary research, however, these literary giants ...

Pterosaurs acquired flight "in a burst at their origin," giving scientists new insights into the biological laws of flight ...

A microscope slide from Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle voyage has sold at auction for three times its estimate - after being ...

Four species of iguanas from the Galápagos Islands have received the highest protection against international commercial ...

The belief that children cannot feel pain lasted well into the 1980s. It was common for them to undergo surgery while ...

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday informed the Lok Sabha that the theory of evolution proposed by Charles ...

The demonization of those who see the world differently is not a path to healing our society and solving problems in ways we ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has announced "The Expedition That Started it All" offer, with up to 20 percent off ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by introducing the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course ...