Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Evolution was a radical ... As towering historical figures go, Charles Darwin does not provide much by way of posthumous scandals. The liberty-extolling Thomas Jefferson was slave master to ...

Evolution by natural selection must have a mechanism. Darwin knew in his heart that evolution by natural selection happened, but he didn't know how. In fact, he proposed a mechanism of heredity ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... In the book, Darwin set out his theory of evolution, based on his years of research and what he had seen when travelling across the globe on the Beagle.

On the "Aqua Mare" in the Galápagos, close encounters with the resident wildlife come with standard-setting luxury.

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Original line drawing of an English Pouter pigeon from the book Variation in Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin. The similarity between artificial selection and natural selection ...

When the theory of evolution was put forth by Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin in 1859, biological science was in its embryonic stage. Naturalists (the precursors of biologists) had been content ...

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is arguably the most important book in biology – after all, it’s where he describes his theory of evolution by natural selection. Its success may have been in ...