The man credited with developing the theory of evolution was a disciplined and rigorous researcher who was intent on making ...

Galápagos plants show repeated evolution and emerging species, emphasizing evolution’s flexibility and active role today.

Charles Darwin was a prolific letter writer — not unusual in his day, of course, before telephones, e-mail and Facebook. A little less usual is the degree to which his correspondence has been ...

“[Mister] Renous, alluding to myself, asked him what he thought of the King of England sending out a collector to their country, to pick up lizards and beetles, and to break stones? The old gentlemen ...

For the five years Charles Darwin spent sailing on the HMS Beagle the budding naturalist had around 404 books for company. After the ship returned to England on October 2, 1836, the books were ...

Beagle: In Darwin’s Wake is a commemoration of 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book “On The Origin of Species”. Almost 180 years after Charles Darwin’s journey circumnavigating the ...

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A group of marine archaeologists may have solved one of the world’s most enduring maritime mysteries — the final resting place of the HMS Beagle in which Charles Darwin developed his landmark theory ...

"Darwin's 'Beagle' notebooks are the most direct sources we have for his experiences on his epic voyage, and they now survive as some of the most precious documents in the history of science and ...

“I had been struck by the beautiful colour of the sea when seen through the chinks of a straw hat,” Charles Darwin wrote, in late March, 1832, as H.M.S. Beagle threaded its way through the Abrolhos ...

THERE is no book of travels so famous, so instructive or so widely read as the second edition of Darwin's “Naturalist's Voyage round the World”. The so-called first edition was published as the third ...