People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is not separate from human beings. In fact, human cultural practices can ...

DNA codes offer new evidence of evolution. DNA, the genetic blueprint for living things, is like a text made up of chemical letters. For many decades, reading the sequence of letters in DNA was a ...

My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

The downstream consequences of religion, politics and war can have far-reaching effects on the environment and on the evolutionary processes affecting urban organisms, according to a new analysis from ...

When I tell people that I conduct work in the field of evolutionary psychology, a common response is about like this: “Oh, I bet you get a lot of resistance from religious people!” And folks are often ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – One hundred years ago, a public high school teacher stood trial in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching human evolution. His nation is still feeling the reverberations today. The law ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state ...

Evolution Again For a long time it looked as if the battle against evolution was about over, but last week a Baptist preacher eagerly waded into a new skirmish. Dr. Wallie Amos Criswell, ...

The idea of evolution did not begin with Charles Darwin, yet he was its greatest champion. The arguments he laid out in On the Origin of Species made evolution mainstream science soon after the work ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One hundred years ...