Evolution Without Evidence: Charles Darwin and "The Origin of Species" is a 1982 book by historian Barry G. Gale. Contrary to the title, the book is not...

ancestor. This forms an important part of the evidence on which evolutionary theory rests, demonstrates that evolution does occur, and illustrates the processes...

knowledge claims. It states: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. The razor is credited to author and journalist...

explaining that evidence) has been uncontroversial among mainstream biologists since the 1940s. Since then, criticisms and denials of evolution have come from...

Africa between 65,000 and 50,000 years ago. The evidence on which scientific accounts of human evolution are based comes from many fields of natural science...

Dawkins, Richard (1986). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design. Illustrations by Liz Pyle (1st American ed...

Recent human evolution refers to evolutionary adaptation, sexual and natural selection, and genetic drift within Homo sapiens populations, since their...

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an...

Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...

Sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region. In...

to study various aspects of evolution by forming and testing hypotheses as well as constructing theories based on evidence from the field or laboratory...

well-substantiated explanation of such facts. The facts of evolution come from observational evidence of current processes, from imperfections in organisms...

level of support for evolution among scientists, the public, and other groups is a topic that frequently arises in the creation–evolution controversy, and...

billion years. The earliest undisputed evidence of life on Earth dates from at least 3.5 billion years ago. Evolution does not attempt to explain the origin...

peppered moth evolution as "the most direct evidence", and "one of the clearest and most easily understood examples of Darwinian evolution in action". Before...

Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of humans and apes from a common...

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...

fact, the evidence within each of these fields is itself a convergence providing evidence for the theory. As a result, to disprove evolution, most or all...

(1999). "Science, Religion, and Evolution". In Springer, Dale A.; Scotchmoor, Judy (eds.). Evolution: Investigating the Evidence (Reprint). The Paleontological...

The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the...

defined by ID, are evidence of design. Critics of ID find a false dichotomy in the premise that evidence against evolution constitutes evidence for design. In...

believe that evolution was progressive (orthogenesis) and had a direction that led towards so-called "higher organisms", despite a lack of evidence for this...

The origin of language, its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study...

evidence was the finding of fossils that helped trace the evolution of the horse from its small five-toed ancestors. However, acceptance of evolution...

The status of creation and evolution in public education has been the subject of substantial debate and conflict in legal, political, and religious circles...

though he preferred a mechanical to evolutionary explanation. But without molecular evidence, progress stalled. In 1952, Alan Turing published his paper "The...

The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history...

Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time. Depending on the mass of the star, its lifetime can range from a few...

"missing link" has been used extensively in popular writings on human evolution to refer to a perceived gap in the hominid evolutionary record. It is...

sociocultural evolution also considers process that can lead to decreases in complexity (degeneration) or that can produce variation or proliferation without any...