When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

There are few forms of the botanical world as readily identifiable as fern leaves. These often large, lacy fronds lend themselves nicely to watercolor paintings and tricep tattoos alike. Thoreau said ...

THE reader of Mr. Wallace’s Essays will be greatly interested in the new facts and reasonings here brought to bear upon the theory of Natural Selection ; and not a little interested in the person of ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...

Find out how scientific ideas paved the way for Darwin's theory of natural selection and how his theory changed the course of not just science, but also the world.

Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from scientist ...