5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago. There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection to ...

Just a replacement of God with natural selection doesn’t change very much. You have to explain how. Nei makes a case for mutation-driven evolution at the 2013 Kyoto Prize awards ceremony. (Credit: The ...

While natural selection is best known for weeding out the weak, it may also be partly responsible for the apparent rise of some disorders, such as autism, autoimmune diseases and reproductive ...

Quantum phenomena “wash out” as particles interact with the environment, but classical properties survive. Are they selected in a process analogous to evolution by natural selection?

The theory of Darwinian evolution by natural selection helps us to understand how living things have changed in the past. But unlike most scientific theories, it can’t predict much about what is ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...

Evolution, Vol. 69, No. 12 (DECEMBER 2015), pp. 3204-3206 (3 pages) One of the main achievements of the modern synthesis is a rigorous mathematical theory for evolution by natural selection. Combining ...

Dig down, and evolution by natural selection is just about spontaneous, sustained accumulation of complexity – if life elsewhere exists, it’s likely to develop in the same way ...