“Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many
innovations—some uncannily perfect—call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability …

Two biologists tackle the unresolved question in the field of evolution: how have living
organisms on Earth developed with such variety and complexity? In the 150 years since …

No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the
world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the …

Introduced in 1859, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated hot debate and
controversy. Today nearly all reputable scientists agree: evolution did happen and natural …

More than two centuries ago, William Paley introduced his famous metaphor of the universe
as a watch made by the Creator. For Paley, the exquisite structure of the universe …

An insider's provocative account of one of the most contentious debates in science today
When Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, two of the world's leading evolutionary …

The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems
impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable …

This is the first of a two-part essay on the history of debates concerning the creativity of
natural selection, from Darwin through the evolutionary synthesis and up to the present …

Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The" green" revolution. Evolution and human
psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science …

The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of
explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical …