“He didn’t convince the world by writing his big species book or even the scientific community for that matter,” said William Ned Friedman, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Colorado.

Everything from intelligent design and HIV to the big-bang theory will be explored in a seven-lecture series about evolution that kicked off this week. Joanna Masel packed the house with the first ...

Come to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to hear about a research adventure to the Caribbean islands and explore the mysteries of lizard evolution. Jonathan Losos of Harvard ...