Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is Darwin's defense of his natural selection theory. A one-page manuscript from scientist ...

A signed Charles Darwin manuscript sold for $882,000 at auction, Sotheby's says. Prior to the sale, the highest-priced Darwin document sold for just over $400,000, BBC reports. The manuscript is ...

In the 1800s, a conflict between the founding fathers of evolution divided the community. Charles Darwin believed sexual selection drove the variation in butterfly colors and patterns of males, while ...

Most of us know that as living things evolve, they take on traits that help them thrive in their home environments. But how are certain traits "chosen" for future generations, and how are others cast ...

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was first formulated in Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” in 1859. It ...

“After having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty’s ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, ...

Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly retell the agonizing difficulty with which Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, surprise it’s about love, with a side of blasphemy. So according to this ...

Part I. In Darwin's Footsteps : Historical Issues. 1. Sexual selection : why does it play such a large role in The descent of man? / Michael Ruse ; 2. Utility vs beauty : Darwin, Wallace and the ...