When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Darwin wasn't the first to suggest the theory of evolution—that all living things originate from ancestral forms and that their distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive ...

When Charles Darwin began his voyage around the world aboard H.M.S. Beagle, he shared with his contemporaries the almost unquestioned belief that every species of plant and animal then inhabiting ...

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

He was a scientist born in Shropshire, who, when studying birds on a tropical island, went: "Huh? The beaks are bigger on this island's birds than another island's birds? I wonder why this is?". He ...

DNA Tree of Plant Life Resolves Darwin's 'Abominable Mystery' Global team led by the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens analyzed over 9,500 flowering plants to figure out how so many evolved, so fast April ...

A carnivorous plant that fascinated Charles Darwin is able to increase its number of "tentacles" when nutrients from the ground are scarce, researchers say. The round-leaved sundew can therefore ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist (1809-1882). In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here is ...

Researchers and historians have collected approximately 15,000 letters written both to and by Charles Darwin in an effort to better understand his life and science. One of his most frequent contacts ...