A scientist has shed new light on the origins of Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery ... I have sometimes speculated whether there did not exist somewhere during long ages an extremely isolated ...

The Charles Darwin bicentennial celebrates the man who recognized natural selection and changed the world's views on evolution. However, his contributions to geology should not be overlooked.

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 ...

Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has ...

This video for high-school students highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection, which meant going against societal norms of ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution ... As well as mapping the distribution of coral reefs, Darwin worked out why different reefs grew where they did, including ...

How did it develop? In 1831, a young British naturalist called Charles Darwin joined the crew of the HMS Beagle to accompany the ship on a five-year voyage around the coastline of South America ...