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 ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, ...

In a review published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers in the United States of America described the potential role and benefits of externally fermented foods in triggering the ...

Evolutionary theory (ET) is a marvelous tool for assisting us in understanding our heritage and our propensities as humans. Those who use ET typically marshall ethnographic, anthropological, and/or ...

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 ...

IN 1981 PETER and Rosemary Grant, a husband-and-wife team of evolutionary biologists, spotted something odd on Daphne Major. Every year for the previous decade they had travelled from Princeton ...

Evolutionary theory (ET) is a marvelous tool for assisting us in understanding our heritage and our propensities as humans. Those who use ET typically marshall ethnographic, anthropological, and/or ...