Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

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 ...

Steve Jones is the not-so-ghostly presence in this charming, informative and very accurate book. He uses his expertise in modern genetics (he is a professor of genetics at University College ...

"In September 1858 I set to work to prepare a volume ... on the transmutation of species, but was often interrupted by ill-health." With Wallace's prompting, Darwin decides he should publish his ...

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 ...

In the mid-19th century, paleontologists scrambling for fossils focused more on the prehistoric ancestors of contemporary creatures than on dinosaurs. But after Charles Darwin published his On ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best ...

Two specimens of Equus neogeus, horse teeth found by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle (1831-1836), are now online. George Gaylord Simpson (1902-1984), an influential US palaeontologist, once ...