The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for ...

But no one gave it more thought, or provided more evidence for it, or more deeply ingrained the theory into our collective consciousness than Charles ... Darwin proposed an answer in his book ...

Gradually these features may become more common in a population ... Foreign language first editions of some works by Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - which Darwin ...

Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life ...

One of the most remarkable but insufficiently noted features of Charles Darwin's conception of ... being teased out of his very fertile axioms of descent with modification and natural selection.

The journey of young Charles ... led Darwin (immediately? long afterward? here the mythic story is vague) to conclude that Earth's living diversity has arisen by an organic process of descent ...

Charles Darwin ... brown species was equally common. We saw many of this latter kind, some clumsily running out of the way, and others shuffling into their burrows. Darwin’s most well-known ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made us rethink our place in the world. The idea that humans shared a common ancestor ... In 'The Descent of Man' he presented an ...

Charles Darwin embarked on the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos Archipelago, where he observed unique species of plants and ...

Reproduced with permission of Punch Ltd. Darwin saw parallels between the evolution of species and of languages Charles Darwin spotted it. In The Descent of Man ... and Old Persian, suggest a common ...

"Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," Darwin (c.1880) said of a future in which his hard-won findings would be tested. Bettmann / Corbis Charles Darwin was just 28 years old ...

Gradually these features may become more common in a population ... Foreign language first editions of some works by Charles Darwin. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - which Darwin ...