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 ...

Darwin kept silent for 20 years before going public and was only half joking when he described writing his book 'On the Origin of Species' as 'like confessing a murder'. This is the story of one ...

Megginson said: According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the ...

thus species are multiplied" (Darwin 1859, p. 120). Discussion of most topics within Evolutionary Biology begins with Darwin. Indeed, On The Origin of Species (1859) continues to influence much of ...

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 his years of research and what he had seen ...

Take a closer look at nine highlights from the Museum's collections, including Darwin's favourite octopus and a rare first edition of his book, On the Origin of Species. While on HMS Beagle, Darwin ...

His famous work "The Origin of Species by natural selection" was published in 1859 and he continued working although his health was often poor. He died at Down House on 19th April 1882. CHARLES ROBERT ...

Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species, was a great fan of the sundew, a cousin of the venus flytrap, and is once said to have remarked: "At this present moment, I care more about ...

The birth of 33 frogs at the London Zoo has been hailed as a “landmark moment” in the ongoing battle to save an endangered species that was first described by Charles Darwin during his epic voyage on ...

The figure refers to the goal, set by the Paris Climate Agreement, of making sure global temperatures rise to no more than 1.5C higher than their pre-industrial level.

Each is a member of a family of birds called honeycreepers, and they all share the same common ancestor: a single finchlike species that scientists estimate arrived on the Hawaiian Islands about 5 ...