Includes updates and/or revisions. Stacey Falk is a high school biology teacher who revels in covering the theory of evolution in class. She is also a Roman Catholic who attends church every week. To ...

The study of human evolution and comparative anatomy bridges palaeontology, biomechanics and evolutionary biology to elucidate the origins of our unique anatomy. Recent analyses have shed new light on ...

Molecular evolution investigates the processes that drive changes in genetic material over time. It encompasses the generation of mutations—whether through DNA replication errors, damage or other ...

This poll asks five times whether intelligent life is inevitable result of evolution, provides additional information each time an answer is given, and in the end reveals how others poll takers voted.

The Tangled Bank gets a three-page review in the latest issue of Evolution, the world’s leading journal on evolutionary biology. The reviewers, Judith Bronstein and Peter Reinthal of the University of ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...

Navigating through what the editor, H.C. Plotkin, calls “conceptual minefields,” the six essays presented in this volume explore the role of phenotypic behavior in evolution. Topics include the ...