He is here less concerned with what happens within an individual’s mind than with how such minds, human and animal, respond ...

When Mr. Darwin was born, in 1809, the name which he inherited was already a famous name. Dr. Erasmus Darwin, the friend of Priestley and Watt, and author of the liotauie Garden, was deservedly ...

Charles Darwin’s childhood garden provides a glimpse of the fascinations that shaped his future—and an opportunity to share them.

COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii — On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef.

Was Darwin inspired by the tropical wildlife of his travels to discover natural selection? Actually, pigeons, worms and barnacles were far more prominent in his thinking.

Roger Smith, left, and Neil Shubin examine a fossil. Photo courtesy PBS We all know the Darwin fish, the car-bumper send-up of the Christian ichthys symbol, or Jesus fish. Unlike the Christian ...

But as "Darwin's Devices" illustrates, we can easily mistake the reasons for the evolution of certain traits by jumping to what seem like "logical" conclusions, and natural selection is not the ...

Now, 200 years after Darwin's birth, the stickleback has become an unlikely superstar of evolutionary science — due largely to research rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

COLORFUL: Charles Darwin's garden in Kent, England, has been re-created for an exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden.