Growing up in Sweden, author J. Arvid Ågren was taught British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' selfish gene theory, which was commonly taught in Europe. When Ågren arrived in North America for ...

Growing up in Sweden, author J. Arvid Ågren was taught British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' selfish gene theory, which was commonly taught in Europe. When Ågren arrived in North America for ...

The late, famed evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr's theory of genetic revolution , introduced in 1954, remains controversial to this day and has many detractors. Mayr believed that genes interacted ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...