Overview: In this lesson, students will be introduced to Darwin’s theory of evolution and how it applies to human development throughout earth’s history. In the Introductory Activity, students learn ...

1. Evolution: An Introduction -- 2. From Natural Philosophy to Darwin -- 3. What the Rocks Say -- 4. The Tree of Life -- 5. Evolution's Molecules -- 6. The Ways of Change: Mutation, Drift, and ...

Comprises the substance of the Munro lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1953 under the title: The palaeontology of the Primates and the problem of ...

Darwin argued that all individuals struggle to survive on limited resourses, but some have small, heritable differences that give them a greater chance of surviving or reproducing, than individuals ...

The evolution of stars and their interactions with compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, remain pivotal in our understanding of the cosmos. Stellar evolution describes the life ...

After a hot white dwarf ceases its nuclear burning, its helium may briefly and explosively reignite. This causes the star to evolve back into a cool giant, whereupon it experiences renewed mass ...