Evolution Definition and 706 Threads

Greetings ! Here's an interesting new theory about how complex life first evolved (about 600 million years ago): http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11464 Looks like it started "by accident" even at that earlier stage, I hope nature thinks it was all worth it, because I...

Behaviourism = the philosophy that a mental state is a disposition to behave a certain way. I am not a fan of behaviourism directly, but I have just come to realize that Behaviourism is the most accurate philosophy of the mind in terms of evolution. I mean, when u consider that evolution can...

How did single celled orgainsims evolve into multicelular organisms because I just can't imagine them making that step. Evolution is due to mutations in organisms that makes them better at survival but how could such a large mutation have occured? Also, does anyone know what they evolved into?

I just read a piece of a book that refers to the affect that HERV (human endogenous retroviruses) can have on the mutation of species - throughout the different generations. I was wondering if there was a site or book or some other such reference that I could look up, that has to do with...

Fossil records reveal that dinosaurs thrived on this planet for millions of years, millions of years ago. If they existed for so long why didn't they evolve into much more intelligent creatures? Aren't a few million years long enough to make that evolutionary leap to, say, developing a...

Evolution not proven? here is its logical proof: 1. The current theory of evolution states that any system where there is hereditary information, slight alterations of that information, and a selection pressure for the best system of hereditary information, evolution will occur. 2. DNA is...