A new study reveals how a remarkable group of plants on the Galápagos Islands developed their diverse leaf shapes—offering ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Is evolution a gradual process or a punctuated one, ...

The original version of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution has been published online among a "treasure trove" of the scientist's papers, photographs and other documents. Some 20,000 items contained ...

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 ...

Over 100 attendees filled NYU’s annual Darwin Lecture on Monday, where Princeton professor Lindy McBride explored how humans ...

When Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, his evolutionary theories permanently shook up science and the way researchers studied the natural world. And while his seminal work ...

Winner of the 1959 PHI BETA KAPPA Science Award. The age of discover. The voyagers ; The two ladders and the scale of being ; The Baconian and humanistic traditions in natural history ; Linnaeus ; The ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important ...