Discover how directed mutation in bacteria challenges neo-Darwinism by showing E. coli adapt through specific mutations when needed. In which the ghost of that oft-reviled ancestor, Jean-Baptiste ...

PROF. HOLMES'S book consists of a collection of essays on evolutionary theories and their application to human affairs, several of which originally appeared in certain American monthly magazines. The ...

THE appearance of a new work on the causes of evolution, by an American biologist, raised the hope that more solid arguments would be forthcoming in favour of the conclusions accepted by so many ...

A new study into the research of the renowned Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer may help to end the controversy which has engulfed his research for almost a century. The study, published in The ...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) formulated the first real theory of biological evolution, in which organisms acquired traits directly from adapting to the environments they faced and passed those ...

Historiographical accounts typically place the formulation of the first embryological theory of the evolutionary origin of vertebrates after the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859) ...