Biophysicist Hunter brings rare depth and originality to this analysis of an often-neglected stream of Darwin's thought, illuminating not only the original debates surrounding The Origin of Species, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Is evolution a gradual process or a punctuated one, ...

More now about evolutionary matters, and we are joined by the great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is Matthew Chapman, born in England but now working in the United States as a screenwriter and ...

Winner of the 1959 PHI BETA KAPPA Science Award. Contents The age of discover. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

NEW YORK — Passing two ponderous Galapagos tortoises, the ninth-graders arrived at the origin of a 150-year struggle between science and faith-based beliefs, where the contested terrain is every ...

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 ...

Charles Darwin's theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes in an essay in the journal Historical Biology. In fact, ...

This exhibition reveals the significant role Darwin's theories have played in explaining and unifying all the biological sciences. Specimens from the museum's diverse collections, along with ...

Scientists have proved one of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution for the first time -- nearly 140 years after his death. Researchers discovered mammal subspecies play a more important role in ...

"An unbeliever in everything beyond his own reason might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been [at] work.'" Trekking into the outback west of Sydney, Australia, Darwin is struck by how ...

Nearly 140 years after his death, a University of Cambridge researcher has found strong evidence that one of Darwin’s hypotheses is true. That hypothesis states that a species belonging to a larger ...