Evolution Archives - The American Scholar

Selective Memory

By Christoph Irmscher | 12/05/2016 |

Ideas do not always catch on right away

The Society of Genes

By Stephanie Bastek | 01/20/2016 |

Read an excerpt from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher’s new book on evolutionary biology

How Chemistry Became Biology

By Priscilla Long | 12/07/2015 |

And how LUCA, Earth’s first living cell, became Lucas, my adorable grandnephew

Evolution by Other Means

By Ian Tattersall | 12/07/2015 |

Natural selection isn’t the whole story of human development

Call of the Crustacean

By Elyse Graham | 06/27/2013 |

How Flowers Changed the World

By Priscilla Long | 05/22/2013 |

They still do, every spring

Those Other Ancestors

By Priscilla Long | 05/08/2013 |

Neandertals were big, with bigger intellects than you might think

Meme, Myself, and I

By Jonnie Hughes | 03/21/2013 |

Dabbling in Darwin

By Priscilla Long | 01/02/2013 |

The polymathic Victorian is good company on a winter’s evening

Family Matters

By Priscilla Long | 12/14/2011 |