When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the strongest plant produces more seeds, and the most ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859, introducing much of the world to evolutionary theory. By that time, Darwin had lived through most of the first Industrial ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...