What happens when you let evolution play out inside a video game? From digital creatures adapting in real-time to entire ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

A column about fixed-odds wagering on horse racing and the possibilities in sports betting-rife North America.

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

Natural selection isn’t the only factor driving evolution, says Laurence D Hurst. And it’s happening faster than ever before ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

A new study examining stick and leaf insect species has found evidence of convergent evolution, with all of the insects evolving similar characteristics despite diverging long ago. Convergent ...

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have now developed a method that allows for the first time to ...

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" — where a teacher was charged with the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. At ...

Natural Selection in Real Time "When we made the comparison between the size of the offspring generation and the population before selection, we found a measured, evolutionary response had taken ...