Darwin described writing it as like 'living in Hell'. He dreaded losing his reputation, as his grandfather Erasmus had. Charles did draw fierce criticism from the Church, and from some parts of ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire ... talks and through student societies. However, he did not enjoy certain parts of his studies, particularly the study of anatomy and surgery.

This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin's ideas have influenced ...

"I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible." So 19-year-old Charles charts a new career path. Darwin will spend three years at Cambridge University ...

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 Darwin embarked on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle in 1831 ... In 2006, the Museum Library acquired the largest collection of works by and about Darwin in existence. Although Darwin did ...

Alternative thinking on the evolution of species is a welcome way to highlight some neglected aspects of life on Earth, but ...

The development of Charles Darwin's views on evolution by natural selection has fascinated biologists since ... While his autobiography claims that the framework of his theory was laid down by 1839, ...

Those who did included a man from Australia whose great-great-great-great-grandfather was a coachman of Charles Darwin's father. "Mark Briggs was very close to the family, taking Darwin's father ...

Like big, tall trees in old-growth forests, older animals are irreplaceable. Pulling them out leaves the ecosystem less resilient to future shocks. It’s time for ‘longevity conservation ...

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 ...