The virus that causes COVID-19 has accomplished something that school boards and other policy makers often refuse to do. It has given us a vivid, real-time lesson in how biological evolution works, ...

The differential survival and/or reproduction of classes of entities that differ in one or more characteristics. To constitute natural selection, the difference in survival and/or reproduction cannot ...

Though Charles Darwin is most famous for his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and his theory of natural selection, the naturalist was, at heart, a botanist. Photo illustration by Smithsonian.com / Photos ...

Natural selection is the process by which some organisms in a population survive and reproduce, while others do not, based on their bodies and behaviour. It is one of the processes by which species ...