Compared to people in the 19th Century, modern people are taller, heavier, and experience menarche at an earlier age but we can’t say whether that has anything to do with natural selection.

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead of letting nature decide who reproduces, we do.

Natural selection, the evolutionary process that guides which traits become more common in a population, has been acting on us for the past 3,000 years, right up to the modern day, new research ...

News Published: 13 February 1873 Modern Applications of the Doctrine of Natural Selection * ALFRED R. WALLACE Nature 7, 277–279 (1873) Cite this article ...

The bottom line is that modern empirical natural science is one of the most powerful systems of justification humans have ever constructed. And it turns out that it can be framed by a central concept.

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 ...

A lfred Russel Wallace, the evolutionary theorist often billed as the “co-discoverer” of natural selection, began life quite differently from his wealthier and more famous counterpart Charles ...