Darwin's life and his contribution to science. ... Charles Darwin was born into a world that today’s scientists wouldn’t recognize. When baby Darwin arrived on February 12, ...

Charles Darwin's upcoming 200th birthday is prompting some U.S. scientists to consider the Victorian-era naturalist's contribution to modern science.

'The orchids have been a splendid sport' -- An alternative look at Charles Darwin's contribution to orchid biology. American Journal of Botany , 2009; 96 (12): 2128 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900122 Cite ...

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist who is well known to have given the theory that men evolved from apes. In his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, he gave ...

Although it’s too late to rebrand Darwin's famous work, it might make sense to rename it “On the Origin of Pigeons, Worms, and Barnacles.” ...

But his new book, “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker,” is less a biography than an indictment of a man he finds wanting in so many respects that the reader wonders how Mr. Wilson could stand ...

CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER. By A.N. Wilson. HarperCollins, $32, 438 pages. ... Darwin’s contribution was to propose a hypothesis about the process of macroevolution.

A microscope owned by Charles Darwin that was passed down through his family for almost 200 years is expected to sell for up to £350,000 when it goes up for auction in December.. The scientific ...

Science News: A Scottish horticulturist proposed the idea of 'evolution by natural selection' 27 years before Charles Darwin, according to a UK scientist who sugges ...