Lucy's kind are now called Australopithecus afarensis, in honor of the Ethiopian region's Afar people, where she was discovered ... evidence to the tree-theory of human evolution.

The theory of evolution, he wrote ... Working with pea plants, the Austrian priest Gregor Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of genetics in 1865. But Mendel's work was neglected until ...

In the article "To Effectively Discuss Evolution, First Define 'Theory'" in the May 12 issue of The Scientist (R. Lewis, page 13), it was stated that the term "theory of evolution" should be replaced ...

Few subjects in evolutionary theory ... period of bird evolution is growing rapidly. Since 1990, more than three times as many bird fossils dating from the Cretaceous have been discovered than ...

14, 2009, at Liang Bua cave excavation site where the remains of Homo floresiensis were discovered in Ruteng ... to change our understanding of human evolution. It would mean contemplating ...

If you’ve taken high school or college biology, you’ve probably been exposed to a good dose of Darwinian evolution. Darwinian theory includes the belief that all living things descended from a small ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...

The discovery of bone implements that are the oldest ever found, by far, casts light on human evolution. It shows that our hominin ancestors were able to think about and make this technology a lot ...