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

In the mid-1980s, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a deeply satirical, allegorical novel called Galápagos in which an ageing hustler flees ...

It is why life takes "such endless forms most beautiful and wonderful," as British biologist Charles Darwin wrote in his famous 1859 book "On the Origin of Species." You can thank evolution for ...

From this unused material they have compiled, with only a few slight repetitions, “an almost complete record of ... since the “Origin of Species” was first published. The book was received ...

Dr Martyn Linnie, curator of Trinity College Dublin’s Zoological Museum, has just launched a new book, bringing to life the many tales of the museum’s history and that of its permanent residents.

His trade policies obstruct not only the flow of goods ... In the decades before he published “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin exchanged regular letters with at least 231 scientists in 13 ...

We don’t like those damn foreigners. The problem is that great nations throughout the history of Western civilization have ...

One answer: for the fossil mammal and bird discoveries that most visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin himself considered the best evidence for the theory of evolution in his lifetime.