pt. 1. Introduction: Development of the theory of evolution. Sources of evolutionary ideas in the late eighteenth century ; Evolutionary and antievolutionary currents in early nineteenth-century ...

When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past ...

Charles Darwin has an illustrious place in history as the father of evolution. His ideas forever changed how we understand ...

A copy of Charles Darwin’s “B notebook”, in which he wrote the words “I think” and drew a simple evolutionary tree is on display during a press preview of “Darwin” at the American Museum of Natural ...

The National Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition, “Since Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution,” Sept. 12 in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th ...

In the previous post of this two-part series, we looked at Charles Darwin’s life through the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859. In this post, we will complete his life’s story, and ...

When the English biologist Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" in 1859, the former theology student knew his theory of evolution would cause a scientific and ...

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 ...

LONDON, April 5 – Two notebooks owned by British naturalist Charles Darwin, including one containing a sketch of his famous Tree of Life, have been returned to Cambridge University’s library, more ...

Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, Vol. 52, No. 1 (March 2021), pp. 115-134 (20 pages) In the wake of recent attempts at alternate history ...