Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andréa Morris reports on emergent intelligence in diverse systems. “Where are all the genetic cures?” asks Denis Noble, a ...

You’ve seen the memes—“everything will eventually evolve into a crab” or “crab is the ideal form”—while scrolling online. These are parodies of a real scientific concept, carcinization. In biology, ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil” — revealed that key ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was postulated in “On the Origin of Species.” In this theory, Darwin suggested ...

The conventional narrative for evolution is outdated. I am not casting doubt on the fact of evolution. I am saying that the way most people think of life's story has not kept pace with new knowledge ...