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Evolution does not have a conscience. It does not ask whether something should exist. It only asks whether it works. And ...

Lamarckism contended that an organism may acquire characteristics in response to its environment and pass these on.

Natural selection is usually understood in the context of change. When organisms deviate from the norm, they may gain advantages that let their lineages outlast those of their less-adaptable relatives ...

Human evolution: no pause in sight A team at Harvard, led by Ali Akbari, has just turned a key assumption in science upside ...

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the ...

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Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring to imagine that complex bodies and brains like ...