Researchers create a genome database of earthworms that goes back 200 million years, and find out how their evolution was facilitated.

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

The dream of flying has always fascinated humanity. In evolutionary history, the ability to fly has emerged independently ...

Come one, come all and gather ‘round as we try to solve an age-old question … Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Two ...

A century after teacher John Scopes was tried for presenting human evolution in the classroom, a new book argues the trial ...

His system of nomenclature and classification is fundamental to the study of not just evolution but of taxonomy and ...

Object Details Author Bell, Michael A Subject Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Notes Proceedings of a workshop entitled "Darwin 2009" held Nov. 4-7, 2009, at Stony Brook University to mark the bicentennial ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

One hundred years ago, a public school teacher was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution. The Scopes Monkey Trial has lessons — urgent ones — for today ...