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Q: Tell us about this "dangerous idea" of Darwin's. A: I think Darwin's idea of natural selection is the best idea anybody ever had, ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein. What it does is it promises ...

"As far as advancing Darwin's theory that natural selection is a key driver of speciation, this is the first experiment of its kind done outside of a lab setting. The findings are exciting," says ...

A Scottish horticulturist proposed the idea of 'evolution by natural selection' 27 years before Charles Darwin, according to a UK scientist who suggests the man should be more widely acknowledged ...

Every year on 12 February Darwin Day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. He revolutionaised the field of natural history from his theory of natural selection. His book ...

Charles Darwin is not around today to explain his ... now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell ...

Natural selection is one of the ways to account for the millions of species that have lived on Earth. The Museum’s Library holds the world's largest concentration of Darwin works, with 478 editions of ...

The evolutionary process that Charles Darwin discovered almost 150 years ago, responsible for transforming dinosaurs into birds and allowing the walking ancestors of whales to take to the seas, is ...

Darwin visited four continents on the ship HMS Beagle. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection challenged the idea that God made all the animals and plants that live on Earth.

The modern study of natural selection began with Charles Darwin, an English naturalist best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. During a five-year mapping voyage along South ...