Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

History is littered with “wild” ideas that experts once mocked, only to embrace them later when evidence piled up. Nowhere is that reversal more dramatic than in medicine, where supernatural and moral ...

Despite evolutionary theory having moved well beyond what Charles Darwin initially put down as a theory in "The Origin of Species" and his subsequent works, many of his principles still hold ...

Individuality is an important concept in biology, yet there are many non-equivalent criteria of individuality expressed in different kinds of biological individuals. This article evaluates these ...