Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited ...

Evolution does not have a conscience. It does not ask whether something should exist. It only asks whether it works. And ...

Lamarckism contended that an organism may acquire characteristics in response to its environment and pass these on.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think ...

Human evolution: no pause in sight A team at Harvard, led by Ali Akbari, has just turned a key assumption in science upside ...

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change. When organisms deviate from the norm, they may gain advantages that let their lineages outlast those of their less-adaptable relatives ...

Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ...