In his landmark 1942 book, Mayr proposed that Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain all of evolution, including why genes evolve at the molecular level. On the stubborn question of ...

A century after the Scopes trial, hopeful prospects beckon for teaching the unifying principle of the biological sciences in ...

If natural selection is survival of the fittest, why isn't everything a competition? Cooperation and competition have a fitness face off in game theory. Evolutionary games are often visually ...

The neutral theory holds that most variation at the ... The idea that nonadaptive processes may have a major impact on the evolution of biological complexity has been largely developed by Michael ...

“The central idea of biological evolution is that all life ... By far the most controversial aspect of evolution theory was its apparent contradiction of the biblical account of creation ...

Well-informed Catholics do not see conflict between their religious beliefs and the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. In 1996, Pope John Paul II stated that the conclusions reached by ...

1. BIOLOGICAL THEORY: Randy Thornhill, The Biology of Human Rape, 39 Jurimetrics J. 137(1999) at 143: Selection, or differential reproductive success among individuals due to trait differences, is the ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

3 they developed an evolutionary framework for understanding how early forms of consciousness 4 emerged as a natural property grounded in life’s basic biological properties but requiring the evolution ...

Public sentiment still seems to be divided over evolution, but archeological and biological studies continually ... Some people are indoctrinated against the theory of evolution and simply do ...