In the mid-19th century, paleontologists scrambling for fossils focused more on the prehistoric ancestors of contemporary creatures than on dinosaurs. But after Charles Darwin published his On ...

‘I hope people remember me as the ‘Chinese Darwin’ in 50 years,’ says He Jiankui ... genetically-engineered babies has ...

Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the complicated legacy of the Taung child skull, 100 years since its discovery.

The idea of evolution did not begin with Charles Darwin, yet he was its greatest champion. The arguments he laid out in On the Origin of Species made evolution mainstream science soon after the ...

Darwin the Geologist may well be tucked away in a corner of the Sedgwick Museum in the University of Cambridge, but this exhibition packs quite the punch. For a traditional geologist such as ...

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Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...