Charles Darwin began his discussion of cabbages in "The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication" in 1868, a few years after his (to his mind) hasty publication of "The Origin of ...

TO-DAY, while all that was mortal of Charles Darwin is borne to its last resting-place in Westminster Abbey, by the side of Sir Isaac Newton, it seems a fitting occasion to utter a few words of ...

Charles Darwin’s “big idea” is generally thought to be his discovery of the mechanism of natural selection in evolution. That discovery was without question a big idea. But, as Darwin ...

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.” ...

And on the other? Page 40 of the first — and only — handwritten draft of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” arguably the most important text in the history of biology.

In honor of Charles Darwin’s 206th birthday, scientists from Princeton University and Uppsala University in Sweden have published a timely article that sheds light on the evolutionary history of ...

Mysterious benefactor returns Charles Darwin’s missing notebooks after 20 years One of the notebooks contains Charles Darwin's iconic 1837 "Tree of Life" sketch.

Do Charles Darwin’s ideas on sexual selection hold up today? The biologist was very much of his time, which meant it may have shaped his understanding of evolutionary biology.

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The most striking phenotypic diversity among the Darwin's finches is the variation in the size and shape of the beaks.

Darwin’s commitment to quantitative variation as the raw material of evolution meant he could not see the logic of inheritance, argues Jonathan Howard of the University of Cologne, Germany.