The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

The remarkable baya weaver, a diminutive bird native to India, exemplifies Darwin's theory of natural selection with its ...

Richard Hutton takes on the Big Topics. In 1988, he made "The Brain" for PBS and shortly after, "The Mind." Now he offers "Evolution," an eight-hour series airing Monday through Thursday this week at ...

Winner of the 1959 PHI BETA KAPPA Science Award. Contents The age of discover. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

Most important, it was Darwin’s 11-day adventure in the Blue Mountains that kick-started his thinking on evolution, as historians have shown from his diary, letters and field notes. The visit would ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England in 1809. In 1825 he went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. His experience at university provided him with a wide scientific education. He ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Similar stories have been shared ever since. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the Atlantic in Northfield, Massachusetts, ...

Darwin is lying on a forest floor in Valdivia, on the coast of Chile, when suddenly he feels the earth move beneath him. "It ... lasted two minutes (but appeared much longer). The rocking was most ...

Long before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, lively debates about evolution flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Virtually unknown to many ...