This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species ... Darwin’s grasp of time was critical, his knowledge of geology made him ...

true to his word, the book closely follows Darwin's original The Origin of Species. In fact, it begins with a facsimile of the title page and annotated contents of the first John Murray edition ...

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 ...

In the 1794 book of his two-volume Zoonomia ... Less than two years later, on November 22, 1859, Darwin published his great work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, and ...

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ... that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." Darwin saw his 500-page book as "one long argument" for the theory of natural ...

But when Darwin published his ideas in book form the following year, the reaction was quite different. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races ...

This eventual process of speciation by natural selection is illustrated by a sketch drawn by Darwin in his personal notebook nearly 20 years before the Origin of Species was published (Figure 1).

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

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the British naturalist?

They published their scientific ideas jointly in 1858. This also prompted Darwin to publish his book, 'On the Origin of Species', the following year. This meant that Darwin and Wallace worked ...