The British naturalist was the first to offer evidence to explain the mechanism that makes evolution possible: natural selection. And so he became one of the most important thinkers and scientists ...

Charles Darwin ... into their burrows. Darwin’s most well-known work, On the Origin of Species, was published in November 1859. In the book, Darwin set out his theory of evolution, based on ...

The neo-Darwinist attachment to Natural Selection has arrested the development of science for too long.

or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles Darwin. Today, researchers using the genetic techniques of "evo devo" can trace the evolution of the various ...

Scientists have refined their explanations since Charles Darwin proposed the theory in the 1800s, but the core idea is the same, and evolution remains the agreed-upon scientific explanation for ...

HE spent his formative years studying at the University of Edinburgh before publishing his ground-breaking work which changed the accepted wisdom about how species evolved. Now, the full personal ...

The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

Documentary heritage relating to the life and work of Charles Darwin has been recognised on the prestigious UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, highlighting its critical importance to ...

He is best known for his central role as co-discoverer of the theory of evolution, culminating in the publication of his most ...