Includes updates and/or revisions. Stacey Falk is a high school biology teacher who revels in covering the theory of evolution in class. She is also a Roman Catholic who attends church every week. To ...

“What should students learn?” It’s the perennial question that has launched a thousand schools, and then some. While there is general agreement on the broad strokes of what’s worth teaching, the ...

Evolutionary ecology encompasses the study of how evolutionary processes―such as natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift―interact with ecological dynamics to shape the diversity, distribution, ...

Molecular evolution investigates the processes that drive changes in genetic material over time. It encompasses the generation of mutations—whether through DNA replication errors, damage or other ...

This volume is based on the National Academy of Sciences' Colloquium on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution. The articles appearing in these pages were contributed by speakers at the colloquium and have ...

The ongoing global climate crisis is characterized by rising mean water temperatures, thermal stress, ocean acidification, and fluctuating dissolved oxygen ...