Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...

Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species is best known for explaining evolution by natural selection, but it also offers a broader life lesson through the line, “The shield may be as important for ...

This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Discover who Charles Darwin was. Learn about his early life, education, voyage of the Beagle, theory of evolution, and ...

It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest collection of caricatures of ...

Charles Darwin has an illustrious place in history as the father of evolution. His ideas forever changed how we understand life on Earth. Yet, behind his serious veneer and groundbreaking research and ...

It’s not always the best-adapted animal that survives. Sometimes, it’s the one that exploits its fellow creatures ...

SINGAPORE, Feb. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest collection of caricatures of ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...