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

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 visited the Galapagos Islands and ... In it, he told that species evolved and all living things can trace their descent to a common ancestor. He also suggested a mechanism for ...

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

Aboard HMS Beagle in 1832, near the Cape Verde island of Santiago (then called St Jago), the young naturalist Charles Darwin met his match in the form of a common octopus. Surrounded by the Tank ...

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 ...