When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

Like all scientific disciplines, ecology advances, in part, through the generation of credible empirical evidence. Ecologists rely on this empirical evidence in their efforts to understand how the ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was postulated in “On the Origin of Species.” In this theory, Darwin suggested that evolution occurred gradually, although there were no complete fossils.

In the early 2000s, Tawfik presented his ‘New View’ on enzyme evolution, highlighting the role of conformational plasticity in expanding the functional diversity of limited repertoires of sequences.