The virus that causes COVID-19 has accomplished something that school boards and other policy makers often refuse to do. It has given us a vivid, real-time lesson in how biological evolution works, ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859, introducing much of the world to evolutionary theory. By that time, Darwin had lived through most of the first Industrial ...

Bubonic plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the pathogenic bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is spread by rodents. In the fourteenth century, a wave of bubonic plague dubbed the Black Death ...