Imagine having a revolutionary idea, and keeping it to yourself for more than 20 years. That's what Charles Darwin did with his theory of evolution by natural selection. The theory was announced ...

NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David ...

Charles Darwin is widely thought to have developed his natural selection theory of evolution after noting differences among finches in the Galapagos Islands. But it was variation in another species ...

When the theory of evolution was first publicly presented — exactly 150 years ago today — it wasn't immediately recognized as a revolutionary scientific breakthrough. Rather, the course of its impact ...

The first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species laid out the case for evolution by natural selection with nearly 500 pages of dense prose and a single diagram. Now, writer Michael ...

NH copy 39088015198849 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. ""This attractive and readable book makes a valuable ...

Two hundred years after his birth, English scientist Charles Darwin, author of “On the Origin of Species,” is a powerful global brand. To commemorate his bicentennial, the “Darwin industry” — as ...

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is widely misunderstood, even by people who subscribe to it, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould said Tuesday. Gould, a geology professor at Harvard ...

At this point, the idea of somebody publishing an attack on Charles Darwin isn’t exactly surprising. The 19th-century naturalist, and the man behind the theory of evolution, has never been a ...

The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...