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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ecologists at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made valuable discoveries that could transform the conservation of two iconic cockatoo species ...

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 ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.