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 Species." ...

What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

When naturalist Charles Darwin first set foot in the Galápagos, ... Although much of his work on pigeons would end up in his later book The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, ...

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 ...

In mid-July 1837, Darwin wrote down his ideas about life span and variation across generations of animals. He believed his ideas could explain all the diversity he had observed, particularly among ...

Darwin's finches, inhabiting the Galápagos archipelago and Cocos island, constitute an iconic model for studies of speciation and adaptive evolution. A team of scientists from Uppsala University ...

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, we review Darwin's influence on the the modern world, as analyzed by Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's most ...

Among the 4,000 pages of loose notes in the museum’s database are jottings from Darwin’s projects with his kids — he often had them collect plants for him to study — and thoughts that came ...