The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Winner of the 1959 PHI BETA KAPPA Science Award. Contents The age of discover. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

As the creator put it, a "hidden highway" appeared — a network of subsurface waterways that may have allowed the fish to ...

Darwin is lying on a forest floor in Valdivia, on the coast of Chile, when suddenly he feels the earth move beneath him. "It ... lasted two minutes (but appeared much longer). The rocking was most ...

What do Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, G.I. Joe and Charles Darwin have in common? They will all be coming to movie theaters this year. The only real person on that list will be played by Paul Bettany ...

Was Charles Darwin a Darwinist? This is a question we would do well to ponder in regard to Darwin’s The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, which was published just over 150 years ago, ...

Charles Darwins work transformed the understanding of life by showing that survival is driven less by strength or ...