When he learned that the young naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace had developed similar ideas, Darwin volunteered to send Wallace's ideas to a journal for immediate publication. Letter sent to Charles ...

John Edmonstone was a former enslaved man who taught the young Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy. This skill helped Darwin preserve the birds that fermented his ideas about evolution. Many Black ...

This story appears in the February 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The journey of young Charles Darwin aboard His Majesty's Ship Beagle, during the years 1831-36, is one of the best ...

Like so many great scientists, Charles Darwin was first drawn to science as a young boy by his intense interest in the diverse animals and plants that filled his surroundings. Later, despite his ...

I was nick-named 'Gas.'" Like his imposing father, Dr. Robert Darwin, young "Bobby" (as Charles is called) is marked for a medical career -- a respectable pursuit for the minor English gentry.

English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin employed the term to show how successfully adapted organisms achieve better survival rates through reproduction with trait inheritance ...

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 ...

Joe Wigdahl In choosing the young Charles Darwin, around age 30 here, the Beagle’s captain sought a naturalist and a sociable chap. Graphicaartis / Corbis It’s a short walk from Katoomba to ...

Scherrikar Bell: Charles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury and lived in a massive house called The Mount. From a young age Charlie had an interest in natural history ...

Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist, is buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey, not far from Sir Isaac Newton. He was born in Shrewsbury on 12th February 1809, son of Robert Waring ...

The prominent Cambridge geologist Adam Sedgwick has told his father that young Charles no doubt will take a place among the leading scientific men. "After reading this letter," Darwin later ...