Two compelling works spotlight Darwin’s early career: the American writer Tom Chaffin’s gripping “Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage That Changed the World”; ...

Charles Darwin (1809 to 1882) was an English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. As Brittanica.com reports, ...

A Dutch ship has left England on a two-year mission to study and save species discovered by Charles Darwin. The vessel is scheduled to retrace Darwin’s 1831 voyage.

Charles Darwin is celebrated as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived, but in his time his radical theories brought him into conflict with members of the Church of England. Young ...

Did Charles Darwin Convert to Christianity and Discredit Evolution on His Deathbed? According to one account, Darwin said he had been "a young man with uninformed ideas." ...

Many Black people’s contributions to science are hidden from history and we have to reconstruct their stories from the margins of more famous naturalists’ lives.. One such intriguing figure is John ...

On April 19, 1882, Charles Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the father of evolution, died at his home in Downe, England. He was 73. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the ...

Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, the fifth of six children of wealthy and well-connected parents. The young Charles had a quietly Christian upbringing, but his family life ...

Young Charles Darwin (Credit: Public domain/Wikimedia Commons) Long before he would develop his theory of evolution, young Charles Darwin, like so many of us in our 20s, was somewhat at loose ends. He ...

Most travelers following in Darwin’s footsteps go to the Galápagos. But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist was said to have found his calling.