New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Since publication of their paper, “spandrel” has become shorthand among evolutionary biologists for an incidental trait, or ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...

Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of ...

Learn how repeated burn injuries may have acted as a form of natural selection, influencing human genes linked to healing and immune response.

The Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago and UNESCO site, famously influenced Darwin's theory of evolution. Discovered ...