Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle was something like a ...

Shedding some genetically induced excess baggage may have helped a tiny fish thrive in freshwater and outsize its marine ancestors, according to a new study in Science. Shedding some genetically ...

Richard Prum, Coe Professor at Yale University and author of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex,” reveals details of Darwin's theory on gender. This particular hypothesis was not ...

AFTER the one-volume “Life and Letters” by Francis Darwin, and the admirable little book by Grant Allen in the “English Worthies” series, there seemed to be little room for another English work upon ...

Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo with Mistique the village dog. When thinking about evolution, Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, or “survival of the fittest,” ...

Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

Poor Charles Darwin. He was a kind, gentle soul–decent to a fault, some have said–yet he keeps getting cast as the Antichrist. The latest equation of Darwinism with godlessness comes in Ohio, where ...

The Galápagos Islands, a remote volcanic archipelago, located about 1,000 kilometers west of Ecuador, is probably one of the most unique places on Earth. In the scientific world, this archipelago is ...

Tamas Szekely receives funding from The Royal Society and theELVONAL programme of Hungarian Research Foundation (NKFIH). Charles Darwin was a careful scientist. In the middle of the 19th century, ...