biological evolution

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Mr. Hazen, a geoscientist, was studying how minerals formed in the earliest stars and planets when he saw a possible parallel with biological evolution.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Within such protected spaces, early chemical networks might have developed proto-metabolic activity and even basic self-replication, laying important groundwork for biological evolution.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

“The country’s scientific community is seriously dismayed to see that the theory of biological evolution … has been dropped,” the Breakthrough Science Society said in a statement.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 27, 2023

Shaped across hundreds of thousands of years by biological evolution, our modern human brain struggles to comprehend things outside our familiar naturalistic context.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2022

This use and restructuring of previous systems for new purposes is very much like the pattern of biological evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan