But in Darwin's time, it was impossible to see any of that. No one was sure how animals or plants passed down traits. And Darwin knew that the lack of an explanation for heredity left a big gap in ...

Working with pea plants, the Austrian priest Gregor ... arguing for a far older Earth. Darwin, knowing that evolution required vastly more time than just six millennia, concurred.

One of his most frequent contacts was Joseph Dalton Hooker, a botanist who helped identify many of the plant specimens ... one of the first places Darwin expressed his theory of natural selection as a ...

As the diverse and intricate mechanisms of evolution have come to be ... account for all the mutations that occur in plant and animal populations. Darwin believed that the inheritable variations ...

He was a scientist born in Shropshire, who, when studying birds on a tropical island, went: "Huh? The beaks are bigger on ...

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 ...

Darwin explored the continent's remote regions, collecting plants, animals and fossils, and taking copious notes. These collections and records informed his emerging ideas about evolution by natural ...

Would Darwin have felt gratified? The underlying conundrum of rapidly driven evolution upon the plants' emergence remains to a degree, but one could argue flowers were really, really attractive.