Time has long been a concern for great thinkers, and Charles Darwins widely shared reflection highlights its deep connection to how we understand life itself. His message suggests that casually ...

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin's notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University's library have been returned, two decades after they disappeared. The university said Tuesday that the ...

It is a common question — what's the most extraordinary scientific legacy of Charles Robert Darwin's vision of life? The ...

When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of ...

Twenty years ago, two small notebooks written by 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin mysteriously disappeared from the archives of Cambridge University Library. One of the notebooks even contains ...

Charles Darwin has an illustrious place in history as the father of evolution. His ideas forever changed how we understand ...

In the previous post of this two-part series, we looked at Charles Darwin’s life through the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this post, we will complete his life’s story, and ...

When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England, in 1809, into a large family. His father was a well-known physician, and the family lived in a beautiful house. Darwin preferred living in a large tree ...

A newly developed "plant tree of life" may help scientists crack an "abominable mystery" declared by Charles Darwin. Flowering plants first evolved over 140 million years ago. Their sudden emergence ...