A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the first known upright ape-like creatures, was ...

Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution is widely accepted and taught in schools. But a minister of state for India's Human Resource Development, which oversees the country's education system, has spoken ...

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, ...

Paul Braterman is affiliated with the British Centre for Science Education, and is science advisor to the Scottish Secular Society. The 2001 discovery of the seven million-year-old Sahelanthropus, the ...