Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study shows that evolution may look neutral only because shifting environments prevent helpful mutations from taking over.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. Humans have always wondered how so many different animals and plants have come to populate the Earth. Many different explanations ...

An international team of researchers has developed a new theoretical framework that bridges physics and biology to provide a unified approach for understanding how complexity and evolution emerge in ...

Since even before John Scopes’ famous “monkey trial” in 1925, the acceptance of evolution in American schoolhouses has been uneasy. Elsewhere, however, Charles Darwin’s famous theory is taught with ...

Evolution is a fascinating field but can be rife with misunderstanding. One misconception is that evolution has some innate sense of direction or purpose. In reality, evolution is a mindless, ...

Game theory has become a useful way to evaluate strategies for survival in evolution scenarios. In a new study, scientists set up a model where human players engage with each other and compete for ...

Paul Braterman is affiliated with the British Centre for Science Education, and is science advisor to the Scottish Secular Society. The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the ...