A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden ...

Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary ...

The Darwin Tree of Life project has an ambitious target of sequencing the DNA barcodes and full genomes of all 66,000+ described UK species. Our work is the UK’s contribution to the Earth Biogenome ...

I upload these barcodes and their specimen records to the Barcode of Life Database (BOLD), so that researchers across the world can benefit. My pre-DToL background is in Biomedical Science and Novel ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... Darwin fit into his "tree of life ...

The phrase "survival of the fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of ...

Charles Darwin's “Tree of Life” sketch is seen on a page of “Notebook B,” one of the trove of Darwin documents that had been stored in the Cambridge University library Two of Charles ...

Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands and grasped the significance of unique wildlife. There only he found how life is unique before returning to London. On the trip, he collected several ...

the great and complex battle of life...” – unlike his predecessors who viewed nature as a peaceful, harmoniously designed landscape painting, Darwin had observed that nature was a battlefield ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England in 1809. In 1825 he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. His experience at university provided him with a wide scientific education.