Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

Like in nature, survival of the fittest means the ability to adapt to a changing environment. For operators, that evolution ...

Brian Solis is principal analyst at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory firm that helps businesses adapt to new business opportunities. His latest book is “The End of Business as Usual.” In ...

Jennifer Rubin, blogging at the Washington Post, has this to say about President Obama's use of the term "thinly veiled social Darwinism" to describe Paul Ryan's budget: "Let's be clear about two ...

“Social Darwinism, a popular topic in the 19th and early 20th centuries,” reported the Associated Press on April 5, “is making its way into modern American politics.” The news peg for the story was ...

The word Darwinism has become a synecdoche for all the mechanisms implied by the Malthusian concept of “survival of the fittest” — the notion that the strongest members of a system survive to ...

Victorian secular thinkers imagined that when God had faded away, morality would fill the space that was left. But when theism has gone the very idea of a categorical morality becomes meaningless. At ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Gray, a scholar and naturalist, ...

“Thinly-veiled Social Darwinism” has emerged as the attack line of choice of President Obama on the theme of the budget proposal of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan. Ryan’s budget seeks to slow the growth of ...