Q: Why do we humans have a hard time understanding, and sometimes accepting, evolution? What, in your opinion, is the major stumbling block? A: Deep time is hard to grasp. I don't know that it or any ...

On a recent summer evening, my wife was busy page-turning our copy of the weekly New Yorker magazine. Like many of us, the cartoons were the main attraction with occasional stops at articles that ...

"Evolution isn't just about change over millions of years in fossils—it's happening all around us, right now," says James Stroud, the paper's lead author and an Elizabeth Smithgall Watts Early Career ...

Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue. ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment A fundamental and groundbreaking ...

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

Discover how scientists bridge the gap between genomic detection and functional assessment to remain a step ahead of viral evolution. Viruses evolve rapidly and scientists encounter challenges staying ...