Darwin did not coin the phrase, although it is exclusively linked to his theory of natural selection. On this National Darwin Day, February 12, let's go through his famous theory about the ...

All viewers of this document can see this public note. This is the most explicit and concise description and definition of natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s view here 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.

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 ...

Evolution happens through natural selection. Darwin was not content to say that organisms evolve. The theory of evolution, he wrote, "even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory until it could ...

he proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin proposed that: individual organisms within a particular species show a wide range of variation for a characteristic individuals ...

Darwin returned to England in 1836. A highly methodical scholar, constantly collecting and observing, he spent many years comparing and analysing specimens before finally declaring that evolution ...

That was 1858. By then Darwin had begun writing a long, detailed, heavily footnoted treatise on natural selection, but it was only half finished. Panicked, feeling proprietary, yet also reawakened ...

This process of natural selection was first described by Charles Darwin in 1859 in On the Origin of Species. It helps explain how the many varied species on Earth could be descended from a single ...

I remember thinking that this is natural selection in action, here before my eyes, and in Darwin’s islands!" A reminder: January 5 marks the deadline for our third annual photo contest.