The story of Charles Darwin’s life. His theory of evolution changed the way we understood our place in the world.

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 ...

Darwinian thinking has been challenged many times, starting with co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace, who disagreed with some aspects of Charles Darwin’s arguments, but was ...

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 ...

"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, ...

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.

Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, 3258 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843. progress in some areas of sexual selection research, we still have much to accomplish. One of the great strengths 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 ...

Long before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, lively debates about evolution flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Virtually unknown to many ...