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Natural selection

4 August 2020

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

Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life

20 March 2019

The controversial Gaia hypothesis sees Earth as a superorganism adapted to be perfect for life. A weird type of evolution may finally show how that actually happens

Human or hybrid? The big debate over what a species really is

23 January 2019

Humans once mated with Neanderthals so are we hybrids? How we see ourselves and the rest of nature is changing, raising the question of whether species even exist

Lost 'Darwinia' islands could be origin of species in the Galapagos

25 December 2018

Millions of years before the Galapagos existed, another island chain may have shaped the evolution of the unusual wildlife that later inspired Charles Darwin

The Wider Earth review – Darwin's Beagle days make a gripping play

7 November 2018

An unusual venue stages an intriguing play about Darwin's Beagle days as London's Natural History Museum turns theatrical–with superb puppets as exotic wildlife

Review: The Tangled Tree and Lamarck's Revenge are genetic misfits

24 October 2018

Two new books make big claims, but prove only that reports of the death of Darwinism have been greatly exaggerated

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

21 August 2017

A. N. Wilson's error-strewn and tendentious portrayal of Charles Darwin as a "Victorian mythmaker" falls into old traps and digs new ones, finds John van Wyhe

We may have the evolution of beauty completely wrong

3 May 2017

Many male animals sport dazzling displays to attract a mate. But a new book says we may have misunderstood Darwin – and this is all about arbitrary aesthetics