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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A writer has drawn a connection between Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and an implied, yet unnamed, theory by Darwin ...

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist - best known for his work on the theory of evolution by natural selection An archive of works by the scientist Charles Darwin has ...

Onboard, the crew of seven sailors is readying the tall ship for the next stage of its trip - retracing the voyage taken by a young Charles Darwin aboard the H-M-S Beagle that passed around South ...

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 ...