Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor to the "Darwin" exhibit inspects a display with illustration of animals, plants and insects during a press preview at ...

School boards and legislatures across the country are continuing to debate how to teach students about the origins of life on Earth. Policymakers in at least 16 states are currently examining the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennesee’s Republican governor says he will let a bill become law effective April 20 that protects teachers who allow students in their classrooms to criticize evolution and ...

Regarding Tuesday's City and State cover article "Most Texas profs support no limits on evolution teaching / 98% in survey against politics in science education": As a scientist, an educator and a ...

Randy Moore, professor of biology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Eighty years ago this month, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., played host to an unforgettable fight that captivated the nation: ...

Educators involved in curriculum design know one hard truth: you can’t fit in everything. Whatever the finished product, there will always be someone who thinks something important has been missed or ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indiana’s teaching of the theory of evolution does not violate the state or U.S. constitutions, a federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Sarah Evans Barker dismissed a lawsuit filed ...

Evolution is a fact of nature. Species change over time. The evidence is indisputable. Scientists have actually observed it as species evolved within our lifetimes. Bacteria, for example, have evolved ...

Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5787. Living things have altered the earth's oceans, land surfaces, and atmosphere. For ...

Illustration of study design for exploring the impact of conflict reducing evolution education practices on student acceptance of evolution. Students in biology classes accepted the theory of ...

A new study conducted by the Institute for Biology Education has concluded that the way in which supporting knowledge of key evolutionary findings is taught in biology lessons influences the entire ...