One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...

This story appears in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic magazine. Evolution by natural selection, the central concept of the life's work of Charles Darwin, is a theory. It's a theory ...

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 ...

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the ...