THE reader of Mr. Wallace’s Essays will be greatly interested in the new facts and reasonings here brought to bear upon the theory of Natural Selection ; and not a little interested in the person of ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

Have you heard about Charles Darwin's lesser-know theory of evolution: sexual selection? We all know Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, right? Natural selection? But what about his lesser-know ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...