THE reader of Mr. Wallace’s Essays will be greatly interested in the new facts and reasonings here brought to bear upon the theory of Natural Selection ; and not a little interested in the person of ...

Richard Prum, Coe Professor at Yale University and author of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” reveals details of Darwin's theory on gender. This particular hypothesis was not ...

THE fascinating hypothesis of Darwinism has, within the last few years, so completely taken hold of the scientific mind, both in this country and in Germany, that almost the whole of our rising men of ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Addressing beliefs For a variety of reasons, the sexual selection theory found scant support during Darwin's time. Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, was among ...