Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

Charles Darwin, author of On the Origin of Species, was a great fan of the sundew, a cousin of the venus flytrap, and is once said to have remarked: "At this present moment, I care more about ...

While it head-butted his theory of natural selection, Darwin emerged with the theory of sexual selection as a way to ...

Darwin’s grasp of time was critical, his knowledge of geology made him confident that the planet and life were much older than people had once thought, such that there was plenty of time for the ...

"The alternative hypothesis is that it had never gone and that in the last 190 years simply, we were unable to observe it." ...

“The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor,” according to Understanding Evolution, a joint project of the University of California Museum of ...