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

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On Darwin Day, the story behind the delay in publishing his evolution theory is revisited. The fear of religious backlash and rivalry shaped this revolutionary idea’s journey.

Introduction / Janet Browne -- The fetus, the fish heart and the fruit fly : a reflection on Darwin's chapter 1. The evidence of the descent of man from some lower form / Alice Roberts -- Remarkable, ...

Dr N Munal MeiteiContd from previous issueFor example, people living in tropical countries have more melanin in their body to guard them from the daylight. Darwin came about Reverend Thomas Malthus’ ...

Winner of the 1959 PHI BETA KAPPA Science Award. Contents The age of discover. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; ...

Beyond his numerous books and autobiography (Darwin F, 1887a), Darwin left a wealth of personal correspondence (Darwin F, 1887b) and additional written material that science historians can now sift ...

A team of experts have found a tooth in Ethiopia which may rewrite our human family tree and forever alter our understanding of where we came from.

India, Feb. 12 -- On 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, a boy was born who would later be responsible for how humans ...

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843. progress in some areas of sexual selection research, we still have much to accomplish. One of the great strengths of ...