Charles Darwin, a pivotal British naturalist, revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with his theory of evolution by natural selection. In one of his thoughts, Darwin asks people to ...

Perhaps because of that remarkable success, "evolution," or "Darwinism," can sometimes seem like a done deal, and the man himself something of an alabaster monument to wisdom and the dispassionate ...

Darwin surely would have been relieved that there was enough time for evolution to have accounted for the great diversity of life on earth. Modern geology has helped solve another puzzle that troubled ...

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 ...