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.

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.

"This Coral Episode" : Darwin, Dana, and the coral reefs of the Pacific / David R. Stoddart -- Darwin's biogeography and the Oceanic Islands of the Central Pacific, 1859-1909 / E. Alison Kay -- ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Humanity’s understanding of life was forever altered when ...

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, ...

India, Feb. 12 -- On 12th February 1809 in Shrewsbury, England, a boy was born who would later be responsible for how humans ...

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 ...

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 ...