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 ...

More than 150 years ago, Charles Darwin's fascination with genetics and domestication catapulted the scientific world into new territory as scientists started to ask: How did a species evolve to ...

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 ...

Charles Kingsley (a distinguished professor of History at Cambridge University and correspondent with Darwin), no doubt reflecting a common view, observed in 1871, “God is great, or else there ...

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.

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 ...