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South America is blessed with some of the most exquisite natural wonders on earth. While historical sites like Machu Picchu ...

Some 80 years have passed since the Scopes Monkey Trial sparked a heated battle on teaching creation and evolution in public schools ... look at the evidence that is offered to support Darwin’s theory ...

A discovery by scientists at Scripps Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology could shed light on the evolution of ...

Wave after wave of evolutionary theory has prompted research ... been little fresh enlightenment since Darwin's day. “The chief causes of the orderly evolution of the germ are still entirely ...

With its golden sand and blue waters, the beachfront in central Israel looks much like any other stretch of Mediterranean coast, but a closer look reveals something unusual peeking through the ...

Cats, dogs and farm animals are what come to mind when we think of domesticated animals. For ages, domestication has been portrayed as a uniquely human accomplishment, where species become ...

Like Charles Darwin, who had visited the zoo a few years earlier ... There are also affinities with James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, in which life on Earth is a complex self-regulating system and ...

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