Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that can profoundly adversely impact human welfare. Understanding people's incentives when they do so is essential to identify ...

Introduction : how to write history of biology -- The place of biology in the sciences and its conceptual structure -- The changing intellectual milieu of biology Diversity of life. Macrotaxonomy, the ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. “The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ...

More than 1,000 people turned out last week for a biology lesson in Columbus, Ohio. The 2 ½-hour debate between scientists over how schools should teach natural selection drew scientists, educators, ...

What if a computer model could improve itself over time without requiring additional data? One researcher has made weather forecasting more accurate by repurposing an idea from Charles Darwin. Weather ...

What scientific knowledge is and is not presumed in legal reasoning, and what are the differences between what is and what is ...

The board voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve a broad set of changes to Florida’s 1996 science standards, including new goals for student learning in a variety of subjects. But a debate emerged on one of the ...