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

On the one hand, many individually unlikely steps had to occur in biological evolution and human history for our present intelligence and technology to develop.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan