The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

THE reader of Mr. Wallace’s Essays will be greatly interested in the new facts and reasonings here brought to bear upon the theory of Natural Selection ; and not a little interested in the person of ...

The Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago and UNESCO site, famously influenced Darwin's theory of evolution. Discovered ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It describes how organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from genetics to medicine and conservation.

When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal ...

One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...

For well over a century, Darwin’s theory of natural selection has served as biology’s grand unifying framework, explaining how species adapt and evolve through the differential replication of randomly ...