Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

The Understanding Evolution Web site launched in 2004 in response to the need among schoolteachers for resources to help teach evolution. Before long, however, two interesting factors emerged. One was ...

Understanding the principles of cancer evolution is important in designing a therapeutic strategy. A research group at The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (IMSUT) announced a new ...

Q: Why do we humans have a hard time understanding, and sometimes accepting, evolution? What, in your opinion, is the major stumbling block? A: Deep time is hard to grasp. I don't know that it or any ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

The title to this website is quite the enigma, as “understanding evolution” seems to simultaneously be both an easy task and an impossible undertaking. Indeed, there is a difference between grasping ...

Remember domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species and Darwin’s tree of life metaphor we learned about in high school biology? That way of describing living-things lineages is just ...

About 15 years ago, an interdisciplinary program in evolutionary studies came on the scene at Binghamton University. My longtime collaborator, renowned evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, ...

About 15 years ago, an interdisciplinary program in evolutionary studies came on the scene at Binghamton University. My longtime collaborator, renowned evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson, ...

Researchers have shown how laboratory evolution can give rise to highly efficient enzymes for new-to-nature reactions, opening the door for novel and more environmentally friendly ways to make drugs ...