The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

To understand the story of evolution—both its narrative and its mechanism—modern Darwins don't have to guess. They consult ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Similar stories have been shared ever since. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the Atlantic in Northfield, Massachusetts, ...

NH copy 39088015198849 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. ""This attractive and readable book makes a valuable ...

Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...

"April 2017"--Title page verso. Map on end papers. Prologue : a peculiar obsession -- Part One. Darwin in the field. The lieutenant and the beetle collector -- Field trip with a master : the state of ...

Charles Darwin believed evolution created “endless forms most beautiful.” It’s a nice sentiment, but it doesn’t explain why evolution keeps making crabs. Scientists have long wondered whether there ...

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 ...

Richard Hutton takes on the Big Topics. In 1988, he made "The Brain" for PBS and shortly after, "The Mind." Now he offers "Evolution," an eight-hour series airing Monday through Thursday this week at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859. It ...