When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: YueStock Shutterstock Evolution is the way groups of life-forms change over time to ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...

When Julie Haberle attended school in Edina, Minn., she never questioned the textbook example of evolution, illustrated by a fish crawling out of the water to populate the land. That acceptance began ...

In 1758, Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus gave humans a scientific name: Homo sapiens, which means "wise human" in Latin. Although Linnaeus grouped humans with other apes, it was English biologist ...

The U.S. is the only developed country where controversy continues about teaching evolution in schools. Yet, there is little doubt that evolution happens, or that humans are products of evolution by ...

Nullius in verba -- The fact of replication -- The fact of variation -- The fact of selection -- The fact of speciation -- The fact of evolution -- Evolution in action -- The mirror-house of evolution ...

Darwin didn’t create a “theory of evolution,” he created a theory of how evolution works by natural selection. It works very like the selection of desired characteristics practiced by animal breeders: ...