A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Citizen science data from the popular platform iNaturalist has helped uncover the evolution of parental guarding behavior in harvestmen spiders, as shown in research published in the Zoological ...

During most of the 2,000 years that Christianity has existed, it has not been friends with science, and science has not been friends with it. From the Church condemning Galileo, to the Enlightenment ...

Kent Hovind reacts to a Vox video explaining the evidence for evolution. He attempts to debunk it point by point but never actually addresses the evidence presented. This video breaks down what he ...

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Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths have reused the same pair of genes for over 120 million years to produce ...

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When I enrolled in medical school, I considered myself an atheist. While I found the study of the human body fascinating on scientific grounds, it was harder to keep those deeper questions about the ...

In 1976, Richard Dawkins published a book titled after an idea he’d come up with while teaching a lecture on animal behaviour for his PhD supervisor. It just so happened that the idea of The Selfish ...