The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

For more than 150 years, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has sparked one of science's greatest debates. But did later discoveries prove him right? Explore the remarkable story of the ...

With all the controversies and political debates that seem to surround such issues as how to teach students about science and evolution, parents might wish there were some informative and engaging ...

Pioneering AI-powered research on butterflies has probed the under-studied evolution of females and adds to a debate between the founding fathers of evolution. The University of Essex study—published ...

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 ...

A caricature of Darwin from a German satirical magazine, Kladderadatsch published in 1925, showing the American anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan getting to heaven and shocked to see St Peter ...

Charles Darwin had it out for the iguanas of the Galápagos Islands. When the 26-year-old naturalist encountered marine iguanas on San Cristóbal Island in 1835, he repeatedly tossed these “most ...

Simón Bolívar, the hero of the Latin American wars of independence, dreamed of South America becoming a single great power. After defeating Spain in 1821, Bolívar established Gran Colombia with Bogotá ...

A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection. In 1904, thousands of indigenous people were brought to the St. Louis World’s Fair to be put on public ...

At only 22 years of age, Charles Darwin went on a voyage that would forever change our understanding of the world. Studying birds, he noticed that finches from one island had differently shaped beaks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Similar stories have been shared ever since. More than 30 years later, in 1915, across the Atlantic in Northfield, Massachusetts, ...