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

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country 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 ...

Before Darwin’s theory became central to evolutionary biology, it still had gaps that were left to be filled—until a certain limestone quarry grabbed the spotlight.

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

Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

Pokemon GO players have a theory about why Kubfu cannot evolve and how Urshifu could debut during the Might and Mastery ...