B efore there was Charles Darwin, there was Erasmus.
The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.
More than 160 years after Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, scientists say they have proved one of his theories right. Researchers writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B ...
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology and continues to guide modern science, from ...
On Darwin Day, the story behind the delay in publishing his evolution theory is revisited. The fear of religious backlash and rivalry shaped this revolutionary idea’s journey.
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed ...
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An anthropology doctoral student at the University of Cambridge has analyzed centuries of naturalist data to prove a longstanding theory from Charles Darwin’s work. The crux of the work is in the ...
Nearly 140 years after his death, a University of Cambridge researcher has found strong evidence that one of Darwin’s hypotheses is true. That hypothesis states that a species belonging to a larger ...
Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...
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, ...
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of ...