Feb. 12 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. This double-anniversary is the perfect ...

Charles Darwin is widely thought to have developed his natural selection theory of evolution after noting differences among finches in the Galapagos Islands. But it was variation in another species ...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It’s one of the greatest stories in science, right up there with Neil Armstrong’s small step on the moon and Jane ...

Evolution isn’t hard to understand; you don’t need to know about thermodynamics or the unique property of the speed of light. Evidence for it is part of ordinary life, visible in both the general ...

I found myself utterly fascinated by this extraordinary book -- biography, science and romance rolled into one, and beautifully done. It begins with Charles Darwin making a list of the pros and cons ...

Still a flash point among fundamentalist Christians, the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago has become an indispensable tool for biologists to comprehend the natural world.

After being missing for more than 20 years, two notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin mysteriously reappeared several weeks ago at the Cambridge University Library. The notebooks – valued in the ...

Joe Palca speaks with George Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum in London about who really deserves credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection. Imagine having a revolutionary idea, ...