Only four years after the successful mapping of the human genome — the 3 billion bits of DNA that make up our code of life — the most striking outcome for genome scientists like myself has been an ...

The stickers, he said, are not aimed at encouraging the teaching of creationism, but rather at allowing for discussion of a variety of theories. Cobb County’s school board voted in 2002 to attach the ...

ATLANTA — A federal judge Thursday ordered school officials in an Atlanta suburb to remove stickers they had placed in biology textbooks stating that “evolution is a theory, not a fact” that should be ...

A group of about 30 scientists filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Atlanta declaring that there was a “growing scientific controversy” regarding the modern theory of evolution, and that students ...

Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin’s theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been regarded as settled and beyond challenge. But as David Quammen ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species sent shock waves around the world when it was published in 1859. The suggestion that all human beings, of whatever race or color, share a common ancestry, had ...