How would you react if I said, “If you meet somebody who claims to believe in evolution, the person is ignorant, stupid or insane”?Wouldn’t that be a little narrow-minded? This is said all the time, ...

Evolution is a hot-button issue right now, as new science standards are being developed for Minnesota’s K-12 education. If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to ...

Turkey's schools are to stop teaching evolution to students and the subject will not be broached until young people attend college, according to a draft of the country's new curriculum. The head of ...

Methods for and applications of phylogenetic tree inference have proliferated in studies of cancer genomics. Tumour phylogeny methods have become important tools for making sense of the complexity of ...

Textbooks—teachers’ road maps through the curriculum—generally do a respectable job of covering evolution, according to experts who have reviewed the books, though the thick volumes tend to be weaker ...

Guest post by Bill von Hippel, George Richardson, and David Buss The Thinker at the Gates of Hell Source: Rodin, Wikimedia Commons Do strong emotional responses to our article indicate that we hit a ...

Just over 100 years ago the British Association for the Advancement of Science met at Oxford, England. Chief topic of discussion was the idea that all living things had developed over a long period of ...

Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don’t learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up ...