On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Still a flash point among fundamentalist Christians, the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago has become an indispensable tool for biologists to comprehend the natural world.

Evolution isn’t hard to understand; you don’t need to know about thermodynamics or the unique property of the speed of light. Evidence for it is part of ordinary life, visible in both the general ...

It’s one of the greatest stories in science, right up there with Neil Armstrong’s small step on the moon and Jane Goodall’s overhaul of ideas on non-human relationships. When naturalist Charles Darwin ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. Humans have always wondered how so many different animals and plants have come to populate the Earth. Many different explanations ...

A portrait of Charles Darwin taken in 1868 by noted photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published in 1859. His theory of evolution by natural selection was ...

Is the common perception of Darwin's evolutionary theory wildly different from what it actually is? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from ...

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 ...

Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. It’s one of the greatest stories in science, right up there with Neil Armstrong’s small step on the moon and Jane ...