When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

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 ...

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

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 ...

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