Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to better fit the places they live. It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles ...

He’s best known for popularising the theory of evolution in his book, On the Origin of Species, but Charles Darwin also had some very unsubstantiated ideas about human beings... In a later book ...

First, colloquial definitions of the word 'theory' are used to denigrate the place of evolution in the world of scientific knowledge. In science, an idea can be a theory and a fact at the same time.

By the latter part of the 19th century, even many theologians accepted the fact of evolution and saw ways to reconcile evolutionary science and religion. Yet, Darwin's revolution -- perhaps the ...

To evolutionary theorists, a species is a fundamental unit, and transitions between species mark the flow of evolution. But in fact, scientists and philosophers have debated for centuries the ...

We are superb mothers whom evolution has supplied with physical ... to be very distant cousins—hippos and whales, say—are in fact next of kin. They have also found evidence that mammals ...