The philosopher Jerry Fodor was important for the same reason you’ve probably never heard of him: he was unimpressed, to put it politely, by the intellectual trends of the day. His focus was the ...

Symbiogeneticist Lynn Margulis, who was awarded the US Presidential Medal for Science in 1999, says “survival of the fittest” is a “capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin” ...

A peculiar study into malaria resistance in humans, and where and how it occurs in the population, has unexpectedly spurred a re-evaluation of the neo-Darwinist understanding of evolution.

READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have ...

IT has been sometimes said that it is difficult to tell the difference between the supposed effects of the environment upon an organism, and the accumulation of favourable variations. There can be no ...

UNDER the above heading (NATURE, March 26, p. 490) Prof. Henslow gives some criticisms of my paper on the Alpine flora, which seem to show that, for the sake of brevity, I unintentionally rendered my ...