Just outside the Revelstoke Mountain Resort boundaries lay the cliffside stomping grounds of the YETI Natural Selection Revelstoke competition. The two-day weather window opened with a fresh coat ...

and back to England—a journey that inspired his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin was a young man of 22 at the time, a recent graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge ...

Reznick wanted to examine Charles Darwin’s concept of the struggle ... morphed in response to warming winters in Finland. Tawny owls come in two colors, pale gray and reddish brown. Until recently, ...

Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while contemporary rival Alfred Russel Wallace disagreed, predicting that broader natural ...

Short-necked giraffes had therefore gradually disappeared, mercilessly swept away by natural selection. Darwin used the example of other animal species, such as the Galapagos finch, to demonstrate ...

Charles Darwin said that ... in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. “We call this a paradox because it doesn’t seem to make any sense,” Stroud said. “The most common explanation is ...

In the field of science, Wallace famously ‘scooped’ Darwin as he independently discovered natural selection — in 1858, Wallace even sent his embryonic theory to Darwin. You might imagine ...

According to Sotheby’s, the manuscript is Darwin’s “definitive statement on natural selection and his legacy” and was written for a publication called The Autographic Mirror in October 1865.

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 ...