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 ...

In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants, animals and fossils during a five-year voyage ...

The Beagle's other goal here is to chart the complex coastline -- a daunting task that rattles the meticulous Captain FitzRoy. Like most Europeans of the day, Darwin considers the tribal people of ...

Although elements of what we now know as evolution had been discussed in the scientific community before Darwin’s groundbreaking work, he was the first to posit a complete theory accounting for ...

Jenyns never takes up the offer to read a draft of Darwin's theory. Around this time, anonymously, the journalist Robert Chambers publishes a book speculating on evolution. It sells well ...

Apart from those clarifications, the most interesting point missed by the simplified tale is this: Darwin's first real clue toward evolution came not in the Galápagos but three years before ...

Darwin viewed evolution by natural selection as a very gradual mechanism of change within populations, and postulated that new species could be the product of this very same process, but over even ...

Charles Darwin’s account of his trip around the coast of South America, between the islands of the Galápagos, and back to England—a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural ...

Darwin’s finches are often thought of as inspiring a ‘eureka moment’, but it was actually mockingbirds that impacted Darwin's thoughts on evolution. Darwin had collected mockingbirds in South America ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...