New evidence suggests that early humans reached the Jordan Valley at least 1.9 million years ago, hundreds of thousands of ...

All living things have DNA made from the same four building blocks, called nucleotides. This is a strong clue that all life came from the same starting point. Fields like anatomy, biochemistry, ...

Millions of years after animals first conquered land, some took an extraordinary evolutionary U-turn and returned to the ...

It is generally accepted by archaeologists that modern humans originated in Africa and dispersed worldwide, while other hominins went extinct. Yet how and when Homo sapiens dispersed out of Africa, ...

Teachers often face difficult questions about evolution, many from parents and others who object to evolution being taught. Science has good answers to these questions, answers that draw on the ...

A new study combining genomic analyses and fossil evidence sheds light on the century-old "Palaeoptera Problem," a longstanding debate over the evolutionary relationships among major groups of winged ...

Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: In the beginning: everything evolves, and Earth is very old -- 1. Everything evolves and changes: discovery of the evolving universe ...

Contrary to popular belief (and those similar to Michael Oard's, Nov. 21), there is excellent and overwhelming evidence for evolution. A common idea advocated by creationists and ID'rs is while ...

The first lesson to be learned from Richard Dawkins’ new book is a purely practical maxim: One should always do what one does best, while scrupulously avoiding those tasks for which neither nature nor ...