No direct hits are required; shock waves from a jet can ripple across hundreds of thousands of light-years to churn galactic ...

Two bacteriologists showed that mutations arise spontaneously in bacterial cultures, thereby disproving Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other states today Dan Falk - Science Correspondent Teacher John T. Scopes (second ...

A random mutation in a gene can alter its function and bring about a new characteristic that can pass down for many generations, but this may not be the only way that organisms can inherit a trait.

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

Hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador, in the very place that inspired Charles Darwin’s seminal theory of evolution, a wild-growing species appears to have hit rewind. A small tomato found in the ...

In casual conversation, people often use the word theory to mean "hunch" or "guess": If you forget to put the bread in the breadbox and discover chunks have been taken out of it the next morning, you ...

Evolution doesn't follow a preordained, straight path. Yet images abound that suggest otherwise. From museum displays to editorial cartoons, evolution is depicted as a linear progression from ...