Molecular evolutionary biologist Masatoshi Nei says Darwin never proved natural selection is the driving force of evolution — because it isn't. In a cavernous concert hall, before an eager audience of ...

Consider the following alternative. The forward-facing brain can almost certainly be traced back to the development of neural nets in all extremely simple organisms with bilaterian (symmetrical) body ...

Professor Brian Cox: Ever since life began, it's been diversifying. As conditions change, so does life. It evolves. Evolution is driven by a process called natural selection. And there's no better ...

Charles Darwin had it right, despite knowing nothing of genetics or the basis of inheritable variation. This illustration shows us how evolution and speciation works for microbes, fungi, plants, ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the ‘big ideas’ in science (you can read more on the Association for Science Education's website). It acts as a framework, connecting all aspects ...

Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change. When organisms deviate from the norm, they may gain advantages that let their lineages outlast those of their less-adaptable relatives ...

Evolution explains how the living things on our planet today have slowly developed from simpler life forms that lived millions of years ago. The first person who explained how evolution happens was ...

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