Charles Darwin had some rather good ideas ... small pools of water were more likely to breed early life than huge swathes of deep ocean, scientists believe (Credit: Pierre-Yves Babelon/Getty ...

Director Jon Amiel and Darwin's descendant Randal Keynes discuss the film and Darwin's personal life. The most famous portrait of Charles Darwin shows an old man, bearded and thoughtful ...

Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of his published Letters. Edited by his son, Francis Darwin. (London: John Murray, 1892.) ...

In the previous post of this two-part series, we looked at Charles Darwin’s life through the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this post, we will complete his life’s story ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

Two compelling works spotlight Darwin’s early career ... “The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth.” ...

In a few scrawled notes to a friend, biologist Charles Darwin theorised how life began. Not only was it probably correct, his theory was a century ahead of its time. Charles Darwin had some rather ...

Charles Darwin had some rather good ideas. His most famous is the theory of evolution by natural selection, which explains much of what we know about life on Earth. But he also pondered many other ...