evolutionary

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Evolutionary theory is no longer heretical, Galileo has been issued a hall pass to heaven, and quite a few sincere if entirely inadequate apologies have been issued, mostly to people long dead.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

The bulk of that—some $6.5 million—was a 2003 pledge, during Summers’s presidency, to establish the school’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics under Prof. Martin Nowak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

The velvety tree ant forms a millions-strong “social insect carpet that spans the mountains,” said Joseph Parker, a biology professor and director of the Center for Evolutionary Science at Caltech.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Their work appears in the open-access journal Evolutionary Systematics, which frequently publishes new findings in taxonomy and evolutionary biology.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

Evolutionary biologists have recently been developing ever more sophisticated methods for drawing conclusions from comparisons of different plants and animals of known evolutionary histories.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond