After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under ...

Darwin finishes his Autobiography. It is a private memoir, a record for his family. It is not meant to be published -- at least in his lifetime. In it, Darwin struggles with his religious beliefs.

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as a young boy by his intense interest in the diverse animals and plants that filled his surroundings. Later, despite his ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor with apes was a challenge to the foundations of ...

Josiah Wedgwood, born in England in 1730, grandfather of Charles Darwin, was a ceramics entrepreneur ... Iris Moon puts it in her experimental new biography of the man, “Melancholy Wedgwood ...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) transformed the way we understand the natural world with ideas that, in his day, were nothing short of revolutionary. He and his fellow pioneers in the field of ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey, not far from Sir Isaac Newton. He was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809, son of Robert Waring ...

We’re all thoroughly familiar with the achievements of Charles Darwin. Well, unless you grew up with a particularly ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution, he proposed a theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. Some of the specimens he collected to support his theory are now cared ...

CHARLES DARWIN: Hi fans, followers and friends, Charles Darwin here, the man who's going to give you the theory of evolution and natural selection. My theory is plants and animals do not stay the ...

Notebooks written by Charles Darwin, which were mysteriously returned to Cambridge University Library after going missing for 20 years, are going on public display. They include his famous Tree of ...