Prior to Charles Darwin, many scholars, including Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin, believed that organisms evolved over time, becoming more complex and better suited to their environment. But the ...

One hundred and forty-four years ago this day, the world was revolutionized by a book. On Nov. 24, 1859, it was published in England: Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural ...

Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animals -- short periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or form -- have long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a newly published ...

Is Piltdown Man a "missing link"? Both critics and proponents of evolution eagerly await the discovery of a "missing link" between humans and other primates. The fossil skull called Piltdown Man seems ...

With Darwin day celebrations going on around the world, people are looking back on a man that changed science as part of a larger cultural revolution away from using theology to explain natural ...

Charles Darwin was an avid fossil collector and during his expedition on the HMS Beagle, he was one of the first to collect remains of extinct South American mammals. Smithsonian Institution Archives ...

The sweeping title of this book refers to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. However, Randall Fuller does not include Darwin’s entire impact upon the United States. Rather, he focuses on how ...

Scopes trial becomes Scopes myth. A popular-yet-inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the Scopes trial. The trial is reduced to a simplistic battle ...