The two great historical theories of the 19th century, of Darwin and Marx—the pinnacle of Enlightenment thought—have fundamentally changed our understanding of the world.

Herbert Spencer, the 19th-century British philosopher, is remembered today as the forbidding -- almost forbidden -- father of "Social Darwinism," a school of thought declaring that the fittest ...

Besides revolutionizing science, Charles Darwin's 1859 "The Origin of Species" managed to inspire the design of a toast rack. The English naturalist's contribution to science is well-documented ...

In the 19th century, he said, people were doing anatomical descriptions, all thinking what they were describing was part of intelligent design. Eventually science moved beyond that, he said.

Why does the 19th-century British naturalist Charles Darwin still matter so much today? Because his understanding of nature is central to modern biotechnology, new medical therapies and ...

In his 2003 comedy “Darwin in Malibu,” Crispin Whittell doesn’t just plop the 19th century evolution theorist into contemporary California; as the play begins, the scientist has already ...

Jonah Goldberg is way off the mark. The Darwin fish is not necessarily smug Christian baiting by secular progressives. This little fish -- far from being a mockery -- is also used by Christians ...

Oparin, a Russian biochemist, is routinely described as the “20th-century Darwin.” Cyril Ponnamperuma, who was an internationally recognized theoretician on the origins of life, recalled that: ...

Charles Darwin was a 19th century British naturalist. He is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, which transformed the way scientists view and interpret life on Earth.

Charles Darwin did very well in a Georgia congressional race. Darwin, the 19th-century British scientist who laid the foundations for the theory of evolution by natural selection, logged 4,000 writ… ...