Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that can profoundly adversely impact human welfare. Understanding people's incentives when they do so is essential to identify ...

More than 1,000 people turned out last week for a biology lesson in Columbus, Ohio. The 2 ½-hour debate between scientists over how schools should teach natural selection drew scientists, educators, ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. “The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ...

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Norman Horowitz, a pioneer of the study of evolution through biochemical synthesis who conducted a search for life on Mars, died Wednesday at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 90. In 1965, he began ...