A much-anticipated commercial computer game about evolution is getting a favorable response from some scholars, even though a few of its features sacrifice strict scientific accuracy to fun.

On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, an argument for teaching evolution to younger children.

Last month, President Bush said that it would be a good idea if something called "intelligent design" were taught along with the theory of evolution. That way, children would be exposed to ...

Understanding evolution seems really, really hard. You have to grasp genetics, geology, biology, phylogeny, and a bunch more -logies. And then the concept of deep time comes along to really ...

Evolution is a big target for them, of course, and I need not belabor the battle here. But what can we do? We need to excite kids about the real world, and about evolution in particular.

Ask any high school biology instructor: Teaching kids about evolution is a science. Students’ reactions to the theory of how life evolved on earth are as diverse as the species on this planet. Teens ...

As I mentioned last year, most schools don’t deal with evolution until high school – long after kids start to wonder (and form their own theories) about how life works. And even then, many do ...

The Florida Board of Education has approved new science standards that explicitly include the word 'evolution' for the first time, but last-minute revisions kindled controversy over religious and ...

One of the most prolific arguments used by creationists to question evolution is that Evolution, as its full name cedes, is a theory. They take this to mean that a theory is simply a supposition, an e ...

Researchers have developed a new theory of molecular evolution, offering insights into how genes function, how the rates of evolutionary divergence can be predicted, and how harmful mutations ...