It wasn't long after the famed scientist Charles Darwin died that the rumors started. Within a week of his death on April 19, 1882, a preacher in Wales "confirmed" for his parishioners that the father ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images Charles Darwin was a 19th century British naturalist. He is best ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...

Discover who Charles Darwin was. Learn about his early life, education, voyage of the Beagle, theory of evolution, and lasting scientific legacy.

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...

Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin.

After being missing for more than 20 years, two notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin mysteriously reappeared several weeks ago at the Cambridge University Library. The notebooks – valued in the ...

Tucker Carlson rejected Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. During a discussion on AI, in which Carlson called the technology a threat to ...

A YOUNG man of twenty-two, Charles Darwin left England as naturalist on board a warship, H.M.S. Beagle, on a journey that lasted five years. The greater part of the voyage was a protracted ...