Naturalists Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin both presented the theory of evolution at the same time in 1858. They thus changed both the course of biology and how we understand the natural ...

pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...

“That everlasting Origin,” Charles Darwin complained in 1868 as he was readying yet another version of “On the Origin of Species,” first published in 1859. “I am sick of correcting.” Yet he went on ...

Was Charles Darwin a one-hit wonder? According to scientists who take a gene’s-eye view of evolution, the 19th-century English naturalist contributed one crucial idea to understanding how species ...

One hundred fifty years ago, a book appeared in England that changed the world. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been called the most important book ever written. Introducing the theory ...

What do the finches of the Galapagos Islands and the lizards of a tiny island at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden have in common? They’ve both shaped ideas on evolution. But the lizards of Fairchild ...