New research suggests that natural selection, famous for rewarding advantageous differences in organisms, can also preserve similarities. The researchers worked with a plant called wild radish and its ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic variation ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection, ...

Charles Darwin was a renowned British naturalist and biologist best known for his theory of evolution through natural selection. Born in 1809, Charles Darwin was the son of Robert Waring Darwin, a ...

In 1858, English naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace independently reached the same groundbreaking conclusion — populations of living organisms change over time through natural ...