Introduction. Human interactions with ecosystems ; Demonstrating causality for human-environmental interactions ; Committee charge and scope of this study -- Existing understanding of the ...

A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire ...

A small fossil snake may hold outsized clues about snake evolution, behavior, and an ancient ecosystem that looked nothing ...

The leaf beetle Spilopyra sumptuosa lives in the rainforests of eastern Australia. Its spectacular, colorful appearance is an example of the rich diversity of the large family of leaf beetles. The ...

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 ...

Evolution is perhaps the most extraordinary story ever told—a tale spanning billions of years that connects every living thing on Earth through an intricate web of shared ancestry. From the tiniest ...

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 ...