Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know ...

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms ...

According to the researchers, their conclusions about the facial development of embryonic mice also appears to apply to us ...

Evolutionary theory is an essential tool for thinking about the foundations of human decision-making. The modern world is, ...

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor at Pennsylvania State University. “We’re an expected or predictable outcome ...

Does mental illness reflect evolutionary traits gone awry? Emphasizing strengths over deficits helps people thrive.

T his spring the University of Tennessee at Knoxville marks the centennial of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the showdown over the teaching of Darwinian evolution held in Dayton in the summer of 1925.

"It suggests that the evolution of complex life may be less ... The central prediction of the "hard steps" theory states that very few, if any, other civilizations exist throughout the universe ...

To put it bluntly, Quirk Evolution involves the theory that Quirks in successive generations will gradually grow in strength, to the point where humans won't be able to control them any longer.

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

Credit: AP/Kristin M. Hall In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Darwin's ...