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 ...

Darwin is not yet a convert to the idea of evolution. But these days in Edinburgh stoke his passion for collecting, dissecting, and striving to understand nature. Fall 1827-Spring 1828 (Darwin's ...

In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which outlined his theory of evolution. was an English naturalist who studied variation in plants, animals and fossils during a five-year voyage ...

Darwin viewed evolution by natural selection as a very gradual mechanism of change within populations, and postulated that new species could be the product of this very same process, but over even ...

When John Scopes, a U.S. schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee, was charged and convicted of violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of Darwin's theory in 1925, it was the anti-evolution ...