Signed Charles Darwin manuscript on natural selection sells for nearly $900,000 at auction — shattering records for highest price paid for a document belonging to the famed scientist ...

Charles Darwin used peacock trains to support his theory of sexual selection, but new research indicates that it’s a bit more ...

The Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago and UNESCO site, famously influenced Darwin's theory of evolution. Discovered ...

The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

Natural selection is analogous to the artificial selection that Darwin observed in pigeons and other domesticated animals of his day. Rather than a conscious agent (humans) selecting desirable traits, ...

In an act of self-censorship, Darwin sat on natural selection for decades. He knew that these ideas would permanently change our understanding of life. And, ultimately, they did.

In this year, 200 th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150 th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, a UK scientist has used Darwin's seminal work on Natural ...

In 1858, he joined his notes on the theory of natural selection with Wallace’s into a hasty presentation to the Linnaean Society of London–crediting himself and Wallace.

Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from ...

Between 1831 and 1836, Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe as the naturalist for the renowned HMS Beagle. Darwin's task, as far as Britain was concerned, was to discover and describe flora ...